The 10 Commandments of Experiential Learning (Jay Roberts and Anna Welton, Inside Higher Ed, August 3, 2022): Growth in the field has led to confusion about terminology, methods, and best practices. The authors have identified some key foundational elements.
Values as North Stars (Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Inside Higher Ed, July 31, 2022): Higher education is a culture laden with deeply rooted values – knowledge, lifelong learning, discovery, social and technological contribution, and excellence.
The New Semester
How to Hold a Better Class Discussion: Advice Guide (Jay Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education): Good discussions involve taking risks, by the students and the professor. This comprehensive guide is filled with tips to help improve yours.
Higher Education Faces Challenges
Where Do We Go From Here? (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, August 3, 2022): Seven routes to academic transformation
Elite Universities Are Out of Touch. Blame the Campus (Nick Burns, New York Times, August 2, 2022): Walled off campuses are partly to blame.
Reclaiming Academe’s Idealism: Lessons from Václav Havel for a Profession in Decline (Joshua Doležal, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1, 2022): Faculty, staff, and students should be the measure of all university structures. The people who define an intellectual community should never be made to measure for a curriculum, a governance system, or an organizational flowchart.
Equity and Justice in Higher Ed
Researchers Did a Deep Dive into Efforts to Restrict Critical Race Theory. Here’s What They Found (Sylvia Goodman, August 3, 2022): A report by CRT Forward Tracking Project at UCLA reveals that restrictions have popped up in nearly every state, with local governments and school boards taking matters into their own hands when the state doesn’t act against CRT.