The Contingent Professor

5 print copies of The Contingent Professor

Well, look what showed up today. Author gratis print copies! Book releases April 16. Available on that e-commerce site (tinyurl.com/4b5kzh82) w/ book preview at publisher (tinyurl.com/46bmaxcj). #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Glad it was of interest. We came across a lot of interesting ideas on teaching over the years and while working on the book. Autonomy and self-regulation is not a new theme but one that has taken more emphasis since device proliferation and of course since the great pivot of covid.

Choosing to learn: The importance of student autonomy in higher education Two field studies suggest that giving college students greater autonomy can improve motivation and learning.

"University teaching and learning centers are responsible for disseminating best practices to instructors, so how well do their resources reflect the importance of student autonomy?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Article: Choosing to learn
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A great read, and very relatable. Found this additional perspective blog post from The Professor is In, quoted in the article. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

theprofessorisin.com/2023/02/08/i...

I just saw something similar posted by the og edutopia and remembered that I found this corroborating article a while back. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Do you have a toxic collaborator? At some time in everyone’s academic lives, there will be cause for collaboration angst. It may all start golden: big ideas, excitement about working with new colleagues, the potential for fan…

The Research Whisperer Blog 2015: "Do you have a toxic collaborator?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

1. consistently miss deadlines.
2. frequently say ‘I’m the first author’
3. don’t listen to feedback.
4. all take and no give.
5. communicate badly.

researchwhisperer.org/2015/01/27/t...

excerpt from article in link

2005 Article review of Bain: "A 15-Year Study of 63 Teachers at 24 Institutions Reveals: What the Best College Teachers Do" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Link: www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...

Because electrons charge more 🥁 #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

A bad title can bury good research. Make it clear, make it searchable, make it a Marvin Gaye reference. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

When names are on the line: Negotiating authorship with your team - Perspectives on Medical Education Perspectives on Medical Education -

Article: “When names are on the line: Negotiating authorship with your team” #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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How many colleges and universities have closed since 2016? A Wisconsin liberal arts college will close after a year of turnaround efforts, while two Catholic colleges finalized their merger deal.

Higher Ed Dive Link below. Hope this is recent enough for folks - things are changing fast. www.highereddive.com/news/how-man...

Best Colleges: Closures 2008 - 2024

Higher Ed Dive: College Closures since 2016

College Closures since 2008 (Two ways). Interesting (in an academic sense) to see the mass closures of for profit colleges and now the rise in private nonprofit closures. Public colleges/universities might be the big test. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways University preparation pathways are an important equity mechanism for opening access to higher education to under-represented students. A vital focus of pathways education is on the academic litera...

"despite academic speaking and listening–known as academic oracy–also holding a crucial role in supporting students’ engagement with content, critical thinking, groupwork, teaching and learning, and in enhancing their success..." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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It says, "Mental and physical health issues, not being able to afford tuition and the impact of COVID-19 on college life are some of the other main reasons for quitting." All those are valid still. My ancestors from PR have been shit on since 1898. Stuff still exists despite US best efforts.

Assessment of class participation in online and offline learning environments: a qualitative investigation of teachers’ best practices and challenges Class participation is an important indicator of student engagement. As research on assessing class participation is relatively scarce, questions of how to achieve reliability in assessing class pa...

Article: "Assessment of class participation in online and offline learning environments: a qualitative investigation of teachers’ best practices and challenges" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox Page

Project Zero: Thinking Routines Toolbox -- "Thinking Routines invite learners of any age to be close observers, organize their ideas, to reason carefully, and to reflect on how they are making sense of things." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

pz.harvard.edu/thinking-rou...

Student perceptions of college—how to move beyond transactional approaches to higher education - Higher Education Higher Education -

Book Review Link

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The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission.For The Real World of

OPEN ACCESS Book: "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (Accompanying review found in following post) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Where have all the humanities majors gone? STEM dominates college campuses The 14th century gave rise to the idea of the Renaissance man: an individual who is gifted in a broad range of areas from the arts to the sciences. Leonardo Da Vinci, for example, is famous for his ar...

"Where have all the humanities majors gone? STEM dominates college campuses" (Shout out to high school journalism) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Mildly Useful? -- Yale Grad Student Teacher Guides: Teaching a Successful Section > Preparing for Class #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

poorvucenter.yale.edu/teaching/tea...

Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching Hessler et al. question the validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching after demonstrating that provision of chocolate cookies had a significant effect on course evaluation.

Article: "Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching."

(Outcome: Class sections that received cookies during course gave better reviews. All else equal.) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Can Colleges Do Without Deadlines? Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

The New Yorker: "Can colleges do without deadlines?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Why Good Students Do “Bad” in College: Why We Should Care and What We Should Do - The LearnWell Projects Updated: October 2023 By the time students enter college, they’ve invested more than 16,000 hours in academic learning. One might expect them to be adept learners, poised for success. However, instead...

Blog Post: "Why Good Students Do “Bad” in College: Why We Should Care and What We Should Do" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

thelearnwellprojects.com/why-good-stu...

Department chairs: expected to solve problems they didn’t create with resources they don’t have. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

"Expanding Responsibilities of Department Chairs: Deans’ Roles in Facilitating Professional Development"
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Eight Myths about Tenure Tenure—the right to continuous employment, which may be terminated only for adequate cause or under conditions of bona fide financial exigency or of a bona fide department or program discontinuance an...

A joke my co-host used to say on the podcast: You see tenure used be "ten years." Ten years and then you were done. But a transcribing error switched it to tenure and we've been chasing it ever since." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Article: "Eight Myths about Tenure"
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New study finds college students expect their professors to be as entertaining as YouTube

"The students ... didn’t have a problem with their online use during class, rationalizing that since their education was something they paid for, they could do what they wanted ... unless a professor was sufficiently entertaining..." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

www.theladders.com/career-advic...

Your first semester teaching will be an experiment. Your second semester teaching will be tweaking that experiment. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

For most colleges, finances are biggest challenge (opinion) Broken budgets, not hostile takeovers, are the biggest challenge for most presidents, Michael T. Nietzel and Charles M. Ambrose write.

Accompanying press at IHE. "While the headlines will continue to focus on political firestorms at elite institutions, it’s failing finances that loom as higher education’s greatest danger today."

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Colleges on the Brink: The Case for Financial Exigency The book comprehensively examines financial exigency, including its history and current status in higher education. It includes a case history about how exigency can help restore the financial int...

Book: Colleges on the Brink. (Ambrose and Nietzel 2023) Be on the lookout for "strategic realignment consultants" coming to a campus near you. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Behind the scenes at the STEM-humanities culture war Chemistry faculty cite the importance of humanities in a scientist’s undergraduate education

NEWS (from 2019, so OLDS?): "Behind the scenes at the STEM-humanities culture war" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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