Director’s Blog

As we get closer to fall quarter, I get more emails from vendors trying to sell me the latest tech that will make our return to campus even easier. And they almost always start with, "I hope this email finds you well." I ignore them, but lately I have wanted to...

With every passing week, we get closer to an in-person fall quarter. And part of me is excited and part of me is cautious that this is actually going to happen, only because our remote work lasted so much longer than any of us anticipated. So is this finally the...

While I know we are all dragging ourselves toward the finish line of spring quarter, I also feel less dread about the future. It seems like fall will be better as we navigate towards in-person classes again. And that has me thinking about a question I've always...

James Lang, one of my favorite faculty developers, wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education this week about why he no longer grades class participation. In short, he found it difficult to do in an equitable way, hard to distinguish through grading...

Spring quarter seems to be arriving with a sense of gloom and resignation. Coming up on the one-year mark of the world shutting down is weighing heavy on us all. I mean, who would have thought we would be teaching Spring quarter remotely - AGAIN?! Students and...