Director’s Blog

Well, 2021 arrived with a bang. As things hopefully begin to move in more positive directions, I finally feel like I can start looking ahead to when we return to campus. It's still a ways off, and there's plenty of remote teaching ahead of us, but I think it's...

For my final post of the year, I'm reflecting on 2020 - what a dumpster fire. Reflection over. But seriously, it was an incredibly challenging, exhausting, frustrating, emotional year, for so many different reasons. I don't need to recount those reasons, and I...

Over the past 8 months (which feels more like 8 years), faculty developers have worked tirelessly to come up with new and creative ways to promote community building in the classroom. "We need connection now more than ever!" we have cried and beat our drum for Zoom...

I'd like to take a moment to shift focus from students to you, the faculty, as part of this pandemic pedagogy series. Since the switch to remote teaching, we've been going fast and furious how to teach and support students as they experience tech problems,...

In Part One, I shared some background thoughts and experiences on assessment. In short, there's no magic solution that eliminates cheating. So instead, let's focus on making better assessments and celebrate the students who are trying their best. While the advice I...