Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly of history majors, the other mostly students fulfilling a GE. Using Google Calendar,…
Faculty across disciplines continue to experiment with new pedagogical strategies to address student engagement—flipped classrooms, active learning, flexible assessments, and modality choice. Yet many still report the same outcome: participation without ownership. Students complete…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the workforce, and higher education must adapt accordingly to prepare students for an entirely new professional landscape. Corporate leaders are not shying away…
According to Mather and Scheepers (2025), providing students with feedback is one of the most important aspects for teaching and learning. However, it is not uncommon for students to avoid engaging with feedback, even when instructors…
Asynchronous online courses tend to follow a clear weekly pattern. Students often describe this structure as helpful and organized, yet they also note that the rhythm can feel a little…
Many college instructors are encountering a familiar classroom dynamic: students arrive able to discuss the “main idea” of a reading, but struggle to point to specific passages, explain how an argument develops, or…
Each semester, students face significant challenges in their courses. Students either get discouraged, fall behind, or consider dropping the class (Trusty et al., 2025). Educators spend a considerable amount of time and creative energy encouraging these students to not…
As a linguistics professor who is currently teaching in the middle of the generative AI boom, I have been thinking about how we can use AI not just as a…
Teaching is more than delivering content—it’s guiding students through a process of growth, discovery, and transformation. As college educators, we strive to create experiences that challenge students, nurture their potential, and prepare them…
Teaching is often described as a solitary profession, where faculty work independently within their own classrooms, departments, or programs. This siloed approach can make it easy to assume that challenges—such…