…the collegiate level is a wonderful yet complex career. We hire people and expect them to be organized, teach effectively, research thoroughly, write lucidly, publish often, serve as effective committee…
…complete. The nature of its aims and the complexity of the topic will continue to make it a work in progress. Practicing what we preach, we feel such a tool…
…engaged academic community. I invite you to reflect about your own institutions and identify how you might be able to contribute to creating a more engaged and creative academic community….
…set them up to succeed. Some of the assignments that I give to students in a composition or first-year experience course are tedious, complicated, and difficult. I acknowledge this fact…
…the response by a student to a comment I made asking him to consider participating more in class discussions. The conversation took place one day after class toward the end…
…will help the polymath solve complex problems needing the application of transdisciplinary knowledge. Being a polymath and subscribing to the notion that people should embrace all ideas is the core…
…come to our institutions and programs: 1) students come to us with these professionalism skills already learned and developed; 2) students will learn and develop these skills somewhere, somehow while…
…strategies improve students’ learning and attitudes toward science,” said Stains, the study’s lead author and associate professor of chemistry at Nebraska. “It’s not just that they understand it better, but…
