Teaching and Learning
Helping Faculty Help First-Gen Students (Melissa Ezarik, Inside Higher Ed, August 12, 2022): Infographic with six supports to consider.
Inclusive Teaching Visualization and Observation (Tracie Addy, Teaching in Higher Ed, August 11, 2022): Podcast discusses the project and classroom observation protocols (40 min.)
5 Essential Ways of Knowing (Ben Harley and Mays Imad, Inside Higher Ed, August 10, 2022): If students are to tackle the complex challenges of the 21st century, they need a variety of skills that allow them to think beyond critical thinking – critical thinking, feeling, imagination, engagement, and being.
The New Semester
How to Teach a Good First Day of Class: Advice Guide (James Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education): The first day of class is crucial both for your students and for you. This guide will help you make opening day as effective as possible.
Higher Education Faces Challenges
College Leaders Appear at White House to Discuss Dobbs Fallout (Rick Seltzer, Higher Ed Dive, August 8, 2022): Taking part in talks with Vice President Kamala D. Harris and the education secretary, Miguel A. Cardona, were eight leaders, including the president of Oberlin College. See, as well, Abortion Is a Higher-Ed Issue (Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 30, 2022).
Gen Z’s Distrust in Higher Ed a ‘Red Flag’ (Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed, August 12, 2022): A new survey report found that about 35 percent of adult members of Generation Z (ages 18-25) surveyed said they tended not to trust higher education while 41 percent said they tended to trust colleges and universities.
Equity and Justice in Higher Ed
When Students Harass Professors (Alicia Andrzejewski, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 8, 2022): Women and people of color are most at risk. Colleges must do more to protect them.
Liberal Arts: The Long Read
Academia: “Adult Education” and Liberal Arts (Timothy Burke, Eight by Seven, August 4, 2022): “…the idea of liberal education less as an embedded part of a degree that grants a credential which is recognized as a professional qualification to do particular kinds of work and more as an ongoing enterprise that makes more sense in many ways to older people who have lived into their humanity.”
On the Bookshelf
Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford). Interview with the author by Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed, August 9, 2022). Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered “outsiders.”
Cassandra Volpe Horri and Martin Springborg, What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education Through Photographs (available as a free downloadable book via the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University). The book delves into the challenges faced by students, faculty, staff, and administrators alike from all variety of institution types and across campus sectors by weaving together a unique collection of documentary photographs of modern teaching and learning at US colleges and universities with research-based discussion of the state of engaged learning. The book teaches readers to think through and with photographs in new ways, offering insights and perspectives with the potential to change teaching, administrative, and support practices for the better. Beckie Supiano discusses the project in the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2022.