Flipping the Classroom, New Book in It Works for Me Series
Recently, New Forums published the eighth book in our It Works for Me, Flipping the Classroom, and we couldn’t be more excited. Way back in the last century, we...
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An Introduction to Sabbaticals 101
The word sabbatical, from the Latin sabbaticus, Greek sabbatikos, and Hebrew Shabbat, literally means “ceasing.” Of course, for academics, a sabbatical rarely ...
The Future of Doctoral Education: A Visionary Perspective
The future is an interesting place where we can dream, envision, muse, and create exciting utopian worlds that may one day come to pass. So let me share my visi...
9 Ways to Strengthen Cognitive Function
How we function as we age is dependent on many factors both physical and mental. Age-related memory changes are a reality although the changes do not automatica...
4 Tips for Women of Color Navigating the Dissertation
Did you know that enrollment of Black/African American and Latina/o doctoral students comprised approximately 11.5% and 6.1% correspondingly of enrollments in 2...
5 Tips for Becoming an Effective, Time-Wise Teacher
In my book, Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching, I urge readers to “be able to be efficient in all things.” This is the first of s...
6 Effects of Chronic Stress and Ways to Deal with It
Most people will experience stress at times—physical or mental or both. Generally, two kinds of stress are identified—acute and chronic. Acute stress results fr...
5 Next Steps to Professional Growth and Renewal for Mid-Career Faculty
Nationwide, over half of higher education faculty are mid-career. While they play vital roles sustaining their institutions, relatively little systematic attent...
5 Key Faculty Development Strategies for Adjunct Instructors
Adjunct instructors are the fastest growing population of faculty in the academy. (Tweet this quote.) Given the current economic condition and its impact on ins...
6 Reasons to Use Student-Directed Teaching Strategies
Faculty members traditionally develop a teaching philosophy statement (TPS) as part of the job application process, for tenure reviews, or to encourage reflecti...