by Steven Volk | Feb 20, 2025 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning A Gen Ed Success Guide for Students Helps Academic Achievement (Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed, February 20, 2025): The University of Louisville developed a digital textbook to address the hidden curriculum of higher education and prepare...
by Steven Volk | Jan 23, 2025 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Making Class Participation Grades Meaningful (Benjamin Rifkin, Inside Higher Ed, January 22, 2025): A call for incentivizing preparation for class discussions and making expectations for student engagement more transparent. Assume the Best:...
by Steven Volk | Jan 17, 2025 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning How to Encourage Students to Write in Their Own Voice (Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 2025): One professor comments that if she can get students to first focus on what they want to say, they can work on grammar,...
by Steven Volk | Jan 10, 2025 | News of the Week
The GLCA and its 13 member colleges are pleased to announce the winners of the 55th New Writers Award, recognizing first published writers for poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction (full announcement here). We also wish to extend our gratitude to the 2025...
by Steven Volk | Dec 20, 2024 | News of the Week
Dear Readers: Time for a break as the holidays near and the calendar flips to a new year. The NOTW will next return on January 10. We wish you a peaceful and relaxing holiday season and send you our most fervent hopes for a good year to come. Teaching and Learning Why...
by Steven Volk | Dec 13, 2024 | News of the Week
Chart of the Week Teaching and Learning The Staircase that Connected Me to a Student (Daniel Chaffin, Inside Higher Ed, December 13, 2024): Sometimes we complain that our university should be more...
