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Diversity in the Professoriate: When are We Going to Get Serious?!

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, January 28, 2010

Often I hear faculty colleagues at my institution and across the nation talking about the need to diversify the professoriate. People say, “I wish we could find more applicants of color” or “It would be great to have more faculty of color here” or “I wonder how other institutions recruit

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No Tolerance for Tardiness

by Dr. Murali Balaji, January 26, 2010

In the five-plus years I have been an educator, I have always been a stickler for attendance. I always jot down my absent and tardy students and enforce grade deductions at the end of the semester. Part of the reason I'm so tenacious when it comes to holding students accountable

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Translating the Rules of the Game

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, January 25, 2010

Over the so-called semester “break,” I cruised through two books that had been on my “to-read” list for a while: Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (Yale University Press) and Rebecca D. Cox’s The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One

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Putting Priorities and Expectations in Perspective

by Deborah Santiago, January 22, 2010

  How do you prioritize higher education when you are struggling to survive and provide for your own family? The recent devastation in Haiti is a vivid reminder for me of this reality. In Haiti, as in many impoverished Latin American countries, survival is the priority, not college.  We can pontificate all

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Race and Representation

by Dr. Murali Balaji, January 21, 2010

I don't think I've given YouTube and some of the other web video portals their just due as pedagogical tools.However, my class this week focuses on the representations of African-Americans in the media over the past 100 years. I showed my students a clip of failed “American Idol” contestant Larry

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