News Roundup: Keeping Students Motivated
This week’s news headlines unpack the significance of a new survey about student loneliness on campus and explore ways to keep students motivated well beyond their first year. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. The Motivation Cliff For first-year students, academic motivation often peaks early. Descriptive feedback and intrinsic carrots […]
Misnomer No More: Teaching Assistants at Clarkson University
Editor’s note: This post is written by ACUE Chief Academic Officer Penny MacCormack, EdD. The recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on Clarkson University brings helpful attention to important service performed by today’s graduate students. Across higher education, we focus time and resources on the professional needs of our faculty, both full-time tenure-track and part-time, or adjunct, educators. But what about our “third” teaching force—our graduate teaching assistants? Estimates by the U.S. Bureau […]
Supporting Our “Third” Teaching Force: Graduate Assistants
News Roundup: Starting Strong and Advice for New Instructors
This week, we bring you insights and research-based practices that faculty can use this semester to ensure students are poised to succeed. From the ACUE community blog: Avoiding Stage Fright: Feeling nervous is natural. Being overly prepared is one way to reduce those first-day nerves, explains Dr. Linda Nilson. Preparing Your Syllabus: Michael Wesch talks about […]
Starting Strong: Teaching Insights for a New Semester
News Roundup: Listening to Students, Promoting Faculty Morale
This week, one instructor reveals what she learned when she asked her students to be candid, and higher education leaders describe a program they implemented for promoting faculty morale. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. “Don’t Take Our Failures Personally” When Nicole Matos asked her students what they wanted their […]
D.C. Community College Drives Student Success Through Effective Instruction
News Roundup: Accessibility and Closing Gaps in Higher Education
This week, educators write about the importance of accessibility and how to work towards closing gaps in higher education. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. Self-Assessment Leads to Rigor/Self-Regulation John Warner writes about the importance of helping students see beyond the grade they receive on an assignment to considering what […]
Accessibility and Closing Gaps in Higher Ed
News Roundup: Preparing Instructors for the New Semester
A Chronicle of Higher Education special report highlights programs that help new and future faculty become better instructors, and an education professor describes the benefits of a college degree that extend beyond job preparation. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. Teaching Ph.D.s How to Teach In this special report, The Chronicle […]
