by Greg Wegner | Nov 28, 2016 | Article of the Week
Jocelyn McWhirter Stanley S. Kresge Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at Albion College In the beginning, there was a sea of library books on pedagogy in higher education. There were also a few brown-bag discussions....
by Greg Wegner | Nov 13, 2016 | Conversations
The outcome of the presidential election has given rise to emotionally charged expressions and actions on several college campuses across the country. At a meeting involving senior officers of GLCA member colleges last week, a number of presidents and provosts...
by Greg Wegner | Nov 13, 2016 | Article of the Week
By Patrick Jackson (Philosophy, Religious Studies, and History, Allegheny College) Some years ago, before I finished my PhD and came to teach at Allegheny, I was a lecturer in the history department at the flagship campus of a large, public, research...
by Greg Wegner | Nov 6, 2016 | Article of the Week
Karen L. Gunther, Department of Psychology, Wabash College. In 2009 I changed the way I teach Sensation and Perception from using a textbook to using what I call “non-fiction novels,” books that are real, but have more of a story line than do traditional textbooks –...
by Greg Wegner | Oct 30, 2016 | Research Annotations
Review by Claudia Thompson, Associate Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster Duckworth, A.L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M.D., & Kelly, D.R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92,...