The Consortium for Teaching and Learning of the GLCA/GLAA will be holding a webinar on The Global Courses Connections Program – Connecting Courses Internationally: what it is, how it works, and how to participate, on Friday, February 10 at 9:00 AM (ET) (GMT/UTC-5). Three pairs of faculty who have taught a connected course will share their experience with the program. The panelists represent the American University in Nigeria, FLAME University, Forman Christian College, the Universidad de Quito San Francisco, Hope College, and Albion College. Register here.
Teaching and Learning
Faculty Gender Imbalances Yield Biased Student Ratings (Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2023): Another study adds to the litany of concerns about student evaluations of faculty teaching. It says men and women are both at risk from bias in gender-lopsided departments, but women more so.
Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity (Jackson Christopher Bartlett, Faculty Focus, January 25, 2023): We need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning.
Friend or Foe (Nancy S. Schorschinsky, Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2023): To determine what materials to allow students to bring to exams, the author conducted her own experiments and discovered some insightful results.
Trauma and Social Anxiety Are Growing Mental-Health Concerns for College Students (Kate Marijolovic, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 25, 2023): New report examines the connection between mental health and academic success.
Teachers as Transformers (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, January 24, 2023): To make higher education transformational rather than transactional, look backward.
Still More on ChatGPT
Worried About ChatGPT? Don’t Be (Hetal Thaker, Inside Higher Ed, January 23, 2023): ChatGPT raises questions about what we value in writing instruction.
Embrace the Bot: Designing Writing Assignments in the Face of AI (Eric Prochaska, Faculty Focus, January 23, 2023): The best question, as always, is how can we best teach our students? Prochaska offers three methods of designing writing assignments in the face of an AI incursion.
Don’t Blame Students for Using ChatGPT to Cheat (Jordan S. Carroll, The Nation, January 20, 2023): When college education is rendered transactional, a generation trained to use technological tools to solve problems is just doing what it’s told.
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Want Marginalized Student to Feel as if They Belong? Read This (Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2023): A new study has found that interventions that aimed to improve first-year students’ sense of belonging at a broad-access university increased the likelihood of students of color and first-generation students’ continuous enrollment in the next two years, as compared to their peers who did not receive these interventions.
Speech and Higher Ed
A Better Way to Protect Free Speech on Campus (Malick W. Ghachem, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2023): Grand statements of principle ignore classroom realities.
Academia: Speech Down, Speak Up (Timothy Burke, Substack, January 19, 2023): Looking at a number of speech-and-academic-freedom issues, Burke argues how “misdirected most of the long-running public conversations about campuses and academic freedom tends to be.”
Webinars
The Teagle Foundation has been sponsoring a series of workshops on “Teaching with Transformative Texts.” The next will feature Swati Srivastava, assistant professor of political science at Purdue University, on teaching Orwell’s 1984 in a manner that is accessible and engaging to first-year students and non-humanities majors. The workshop will take place on Thursday, February 2, at 12:30 PM EST. Register here.
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GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning
Co-Directors:
Steven Volk (steven.Volk@oberlin.edu)
Colleen Monahan Smith (smith@glca.org)
Charla White (white@glca.org)