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Students as Co-Teachers
Brain Coppola won the Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor of the Year in 2009 as part of the Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. He is the…
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To Compute or Not Compute, That is the Question
U.S. News and World Report found college professors from California to New York actively encouraging use of cell phones, computers, and the internet in order to engage a tech-savvy…
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Teaching Self-Directed Inquiry
McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, uses the practice of self-directed inquiry as a teaching tool across a range of different disciplines. Hundreds of students from freshmen to graduate students in…
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Teaching Strategies for Engaging Learners
This interactive website from MERLOT’s ELIXR project was created with San Francisco State University to demonstrate how to engage students in the classroom. Engaged learning is a way to move…
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Guides to Writing Successful Proposals
These three short guides provide insight into making a successful grant or dissertation proposal. The first is a three-page primer from The Graduate, the newsletter of the Graduate Division at…
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Research Collaborations Build Community
This five-minute video from Luther College discusses the relationship between faculty and students engaged in research projects. Participating students point out that these close relationships within the smaller school environment…
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Models for Engaging Students in Humanities Research
This article from the University of Miami points to the critical need to involve undergraduate students in research. In the last two-decades there has been a call of institutions of…
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Involving Students in Faculty Research
This tip sheet from Carleton College Humanities Center provides a number of strategies for successfully engaging students in faculty research. It covers topics such as: Training Structuring the Work How…
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Video: Nigel Marsh on How to Make Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal…
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Top Tips on Life Balance from UC Davis Faculty
The UC Davis School of Medicine Faculty Development team asked some of their faculty for tips on maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Here is what they discovered: Faculty members who…
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Article: Expecting Balance
From the ProfHacker Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education comes some thoughts on work-life balance among faculty: If you “expect a good work-life balance,” you will never get it….
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Colleen Barrett (Southwest Airlines) on Servant Leadership
This 25:01 minute video includes a talk given by Southwest Airlines President Colleen Barrett at the Wharton Leadership Conference. This is a good take on how servant leadership applies in…
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