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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our Advice 

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Jenni, the early career Assistant Professor, was in her second year of teaching at the institution after leaving an even smaller liberal arts institution which she felt was on shaky financial footing. She teaches at an entirely online public institution and has started the tenure process again.

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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our Advice 

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Jenni, the early career Assistant Professor, was in her second year of teaching at the institution after leaving an even smaller liberal arts institution which she felt was on shaky financial footing. She teaches at an entirely online public institution and has started the tenure process again.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Don‘t Teach In Person

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Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. And some professors are outraged by the tactic. Smith, chair of the university’s political-science department.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity. Then I close the book on that set of evaluations.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. These contract faculty often cobble together patchwork teaching schedules across multiple colleges each semester.