…overall academic experience. That’s the upside. Conversely, cohorts can also evolve into dysfunctional cadres intent on undermining authority and destroying the very learning environment established to support them. Due to…
…away with making up excuses in an academic environment.” “Successful excuse making in an academic environment has virtually no negative consequences for anyone.” Reference: Carmichael, A.M., and Krueger, L.E. (2014)….
…balancing work, family, and school commitments, overcoming previous academic patterns that no longer serve them, and adapting to new approaches to learning (such as online classes.) The flip side, though,…
…the role that academic leaders need to play to foster a true, comprehensive, systemic shift in paradigms. The term paradigm shift was originally used by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure…
…journals, books, conference presentations, video/audio)? What subscriptions to academic databases are available? It is important for student-scholars to be fully aware of the search tools available in their academic disciplines….
…opportunities provided to those who are more academically talented than others. It’s intended to connote a sense of fairness, a feeling that not every student should have the same classroom…
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…far removed from “Composition 101.” Even instructors who work on writing skills find it challenging to maintain momentum when their own academic content inevitably requires attention. Moreover, students, many of…
