International Women’s Day, 2015
Oh what to say on this Sunday morning? I could say that I’m tired and worn from the stresses of a career in education. I could say that the spite of strangers can make a person cry. I could say … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Students
Grade Hunting Season
Every semester, there is a magical time of the year when students start worrying about their performance in their college courses. This time is usually right before finals. Thus begins the yearly ritual of hunting down professors (even though said … Continue reading
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Guides for Better Writing
Sometimes I find myself reverting back to Strunk and White when grading student papers, writing in the margins that the best writing is efficient writing. As a college student, I was a member of the nationally respected (and feared? 🙂 … Continue reading
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The State of “Higher” Ed
Forbes magazine’s Halah Touryalai reports that one-third of millennials regret going to college. Is higher education falling down the ivory tower? College (Un)bound: 10 College Myths Debunked infographic by NikolaM and AnitaS.
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Photo of the Week, 13 January 2013
Some advice for the new semester…
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Dear Students… e-mail edition
Dear Students, I feel compelled to remind you that I teach communication courses and pay close attention to the nuances of the various types of communication in which we engage. Our abilities to communicate are, in part, what makes us … Continue reading
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All That Mushy Teaching Stuff
I seems as if I’ve been writing “You are loved” a lot lately and you’ll forgive me if there’s a bit too much ‘love’ here, there, and everywhere. I’ve been writing “you are loved” on the blog and faceplace pages … Continue reading
Really We Don’t
This article from Forbes, “Dear Student: I Don’t Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life,” highlights so many of the same things I have written in my own grading philosophy. In a wonderful beginning, Art Carden … Continue reading
New Year in Education Resolutions
This post by Paul Stoller in the Huffington Post highlights some of the tiring dilemmas in Higher Education. Among his assertions is that, “Higher education should be more than a system for processing student bodies. Indeed, it should be the … Continue reading
Thinking about Teaching
Today is Fall Commencement at Columbia College. As I watch our graduates revel and sigh in relief over their upcoming graduation I think, not only, about how much they’ve changed in the years since I first ‘met’ them, but in … Continue reading
