For many of us, the year opens like gates at a horse racetrack. To outsiders, it may have seemed like we got a ridiculous amount of time…
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by Peter Connor It’s a given—students are going to complain about the grades they receive. Also given, is your responsibility to handle such complaints. Generally speaking, this…
by James Whitley Today’s adult learners are far different from their predecessors of less than a decade ago. Almost without notice we are in the midst of…
by James Whitley Today’s adult learners are far different from their predecessors of less than a decade ago. Almost without notice we are in the midst of…
by Ann Brucklacher Remember all that training you had on writing a syllabus? No? If you’re like most instructors, you probably never had any. But does that…
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega Earlier this week, I realized that we had passed the mid-semester mark (our semester is uncharacteristically long, 16 weeks of class instead of the…
by Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins All across the country, instructors answer a variety of student questions with, “It’s in the syllabus.” We all struggle with getting our students to read…
By Jenny Ortiz The yearly work that comes with the first day of Fall classes, as always, feels tedious and only reminds me of the enormous workload…
By Erik Hanson The last Sunday before classes resume, and I could be found going over my schedules and rosters, taking a last-minute look at the syllabi,…
I'm already planning my Fall courses. I start with the syllabus. It's a question about how many rules I want to put in the syllabus. I hate…
