by Steven Volk | Sep 10, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Steve Volk, Co-Director, Consortium for Teaching and Learning, GLCA September 10, 2018 Contact at: steven.volk@oberlin.edu Faculty/Staff Learning Communities have been shown to be a key means of building community around a shared desire to address a vexing issue,...
by Steven Volk | Aug 10, 2018 | Article of the Week, Uncategorized
Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis (Professor of Psychology) and Dr. Deirdre D. Johnston (Department of Communication), Hope College We recently attended a professional conference on “Teaching Peace in the Context of Political Polarization and Partisan Divides.” During the Q...
by Steven Volk | May 2, 2018 | Article of the Week, Featured Article, Uncategorized
By Ric Sheffield, Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology, Kenyon College Contact at: sheffier@kenyon.edu “Diversity” is a term that is widely used in the academy despite the fact that it has a variety of definitions and usages, most of which are directly linked to...
by Steven Volk | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Gina Dow, Associate Professor of Psychology and Alford Coordinator for Service Learning, Denison University Contact at: dow@denison.edu I have been studying child development, in one way or another, for my entire adult life – as a child care worker in high school and...
by Greg Wegner | Apr 17, 2018 | Article of the Week, Featured Article, Uncategorized
By Brooke Bryan, Instructor of Cooperative Education, Antioch College Contact at: bbryan@antiochcollege.edu Brooke Bryan of Antioch College is Co-Director of a GLCA-supported project called Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA). In developing this program,...
by Steven Volk | Mar 5, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Note: The GLCA had scheduled a major meeting of the Consortium for Teaching and Learning for the weekend of February 9-10, 2018, days, unfortunately, when a major snowstorm swept through the Midwest forcing us to cancel the meeting out of concern for everyone’s...
