By Jenny Ortiz Too often recently, I've been pushing aside my work load in order to simply sit still. Mornings, I find myself wondering whether I should…
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By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Things have been going along fairly smoothly. I've started to feel that I am (for the most part) one step ahead of…
By Jenny Ortiz During my office hour either I'm staring at the walls in my office praying for a student (even one that isn't in my class)…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman From their laptops, their Blackberries, their iPhones, and now their iPads they Tweet. They Tweet in the library, the parking lot, walking along the…
By Jenny Ortiz Smart-ass. Too harsh? We'v all had the wise guy, the smart aleck, the know it all in the class who spends more time disrupting…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman There's a funny line from the film "Pulp Fiction," when Esmeralda asks Butch what his name means. He answers, "I'm American, Honey, our names…
By Dorinda Fox A lightbulb went off over my head the other day while I sat listening to the budgetary woes of an academic department during a…
By Melissa McDonald Every term, I always have at least one student who says, quite brazenly, some variation of "I hate being forced to write, and I'm…
By Melissa McDonald I like to keep busy. Teaching semester-after-semester keeps the momentum going, but then something happens that forces me to sit out for a semester…
By Melissa McDonald It's that time of year again when many of us are rushing to get our spring syllabi together and preparing for the semester ahead.…
