Why We Need a Teaching Collaboratory
August 19, 2020 The demands on college professors for curricular development are extreme. Having held positions at both a small liberal arts college with a unique instructional plan, as well as a large state university where we have multiple faculty in German Studies who can divide labor, what is clear to me is that university […]
Emergency Teaching and the Power of Networks
August 11, 2020 How do we deal with an emergency? We rely on our networks — family, friends, and neighbors — to see us through. The same, it turns out, is true in academic life. What I didn’t understand until this spring and summer is that our professional networks expand when we engage them during […]