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Beyond the Icebreaker: Building Community in the Classroom

April 9, 2019
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Career Guidance and Readiness Course, Franklin College, Kristin Flora
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While much attention has been paid to community building in online courses, the same emphasis should be placed on the merits of building community in face-to-face courses. Currently, I’m co-teaching an interdisciplinary course on cross-cultural conceptions of beauty. It... Read more

Convergent Teaching: A Q&A with Anna Neumann and Aaron Pallas

March 26, 2019
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Aaron M. Pallas, Anna Neumann, convergent teaching
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Drs. Anna Neumann and Aaron M. Pallas, professors at Teachers College, Columbia University, examine an idea they call convergent teaching, which looks holistically at the process of learning. Under this approach, all teaching must pay attention to several things... Read more

Speech Class is Now in Session! Professional Speaker Best Practices to Take Your Class to New Heights

As educators, we cannot assume we have captive audiences simply because we have sets of eyes in front of us. One of the biggest challenges educators face is getting students' minds off of everything going on outside the classroom... Read more

Reflections on the Council of Independent Colleges’ 2018 Institute

Earlier this month, ACUE joined the Council of Independent Colleges for its fall institute, which brought together chief academic, financial, and enrollment officers to explore the intertwined issues of recruitment, retention, and completion through quality education, and the associated... Read more

Career Education Meets the Classroom, Curriculum, and Faculty

September 26, 2018
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career education, career readiness, CIC-ACUE Consortium
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There is an emerging movement of University Faculty and Career Service Staff working together to educate students about their future working life. It looks different than it has in past iterations. It is more thoughtful, sophisticated, and mission centric.... Read more

EBSA: Promoting Student-Centered Learning Through Evidence-Based Self-Assessment

September 11, 2018
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evidence-based teaching, student success, student-centered
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Encouraging student investment and responsibility has been a priority throughout my teaching career. Often, students come to my office hours at the end of a semester or email me to inquire about how they are doing and if I... Read more

AASCU 2018: Faculty as the Agents of Change

August 2, 2018
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AASCU, Christina Zambrano, Jason Myrowitz, Mohammed Errihani, Northern Arizona University, Purdue University Northwest, Rutgers University Newark
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We frequently talk about student success initiatives as “what” we implement on our campuses to impact student retention and completion and ensure students’ learning leads to meaningful degrees—but what about the “who” behind student success? Read more

Teaching Through Change

One young woman, Mariam, whose name I’ve changed to protect her identity, wrote about the progress of her mother’s cancer. The first entry at the beginning of the fall semester described the shock of her diagnosis. In each entry,... Read more

The Fractal Educator

April 11, 2018
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big data, high-impact practices, Ken O'Donnell, Natasha Jankowski, student success
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The circa 2000 professor had responsibility for a narrow slice of the university’s life, connected to a specific discipline, students in the major, and a limited number of service obligations. Unless you were in the academic senate or involved... Read more

“Top 8” Photo Countdown From ACE’s Annual Meeting 2018

March 14, 2018
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ACE, ACE2018, american council on education, conference
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#8: “I’m awake.” Meeting attendees taking the escalator between floors were greeted with a video montage from ACUE’s courses projected on the wall. In this still, a student featured in our unit on active learning is pictured saying “I’m awake.... Read more

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