…full-time, attend school on a part-time basis, have children, and must take care of relatives while pursuing their academic goals. Some come to class with less-than-optimal academic preparedness due to…
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,…
…that college and university faculty and academic leaders need to reflect on their expectations for academic work, particularly by discipline. They can also do more to help students become effective…
Service-learning courses offer a combination of academic content, service experience, and critical reflection. To make service-learning successful, consider the following recommendations from Barbara Jacoby, Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community…
…(Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights 2023), we wish to further shed light on an often underutilized area in the quest for increased student participation: the academic curriculum. Multidisciplinary curricular…
…instructional method, the curve of forgetting suggests that lecturing in isolation is one of the most ineffective instructional methods when it comes to retention of information and long-term student academic…
…mandatory participation, and attendance according to required structures. This shift allowed the academic community and students to better understand virtual education. Additionally, the academic community realized the advantages of the…
…be in an academic setting. Cue the eponymous lyrics, “Conjunction junction, what’s your function?” Much like its aforementioned predecessors, The College Tour is the latest educational program to break into…
