This Inside Higher Edarticle about a particularly punishing course syllabus is extreme, but many college professors have policies that are only slightly less extreme, though they may
1. For a couple years now, I’ve made it a point to read John Warner’s blog at Inside Higher Ed at least every few weeks, and often
I’ve turned grades in for this term, so now am beginning to think about my first experience teaching Pass/No Pass courses. As I mentioned back
I’ve always been attracted to the (highly romanticized) idea of monks hunkering down in out-of-the-way monasteries to save cultural artifacts from destruction by the vagaries
I woke at 3am with the thought that the classes I’m currently teaching are going terribly. After 20 years of teaching, I’m familiar with this
When I was a high school teacher, we had a leader who told us that a successful institution is one where everybody in the community
1. I survived high school by reading books about education. My mother worked at the local college and was using her tuition benefit to do
I’ve spent this week in meetings: New Faculty Orientation, New Academic Program Leader Orientation, various meetings of committees and groups. This is not a complaint;
The backstory: Me and my grading I gave a presentation last month for the Summer Writing Institute of the National Writing Project in New Hampshire,
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