Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach
Just as spring brings the promise of new life, the new year brings hope for a new beginning. It provides an opportunity to identify aspects of the previous year that…
I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching?
When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on…
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The Components of the Imagination: Practical Applications of an Innovative but Underused Tool
Calvin and Hobbes has been my favorite comic strip ever since I discovered it in my youth. The comic strip was unique in its visuals, hilarious, and highly relatable. As…
Fostering Career Everywhere: Innovative Approaches to Career Readiness
This article highlights strategies employed across varied disciplines, and at various levels, at the University of Arizona and demonstrates that a “career everywhere” approach is effective in meeting the complementary…
Repainting the Work-Life Line
When I started my encore career as an adjunct professor, I threw myself into the one class I was teaching, eager to update myself on theories and concepts I hadn't…
Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being
Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Since the turn of the millennium, with…
Empowering Online Instructors: A Guide to Crisis Prevention and Preparedness
If you have taught in higher education in the last 20 years, you have probably taught an online course. Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher…
Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Our Stories
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 12, 2013 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Here’s a great story. A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one…
Advice for Students at the Start of the Academic Year
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 17, 2017 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. If it’s a teacher’s advice on how to succeed, consider not giving it. Instead,…
Faculty Focus: A Year in Review
Take a look at the most popular articles, podcast episodes, free reports, and programs of Faculty Focus 2023.