Choosing a major – The Philosophy of Contemporary Song

AI in the Classroom

I’ve long been an early technology adapter. I started building webpages/websites in the 90s, used turnitin.com not just for plagiarism checking but for providing rich feedback on student papers in the very early 2000s, and around that time had students write live blogs on a course website as part of their writing requirements. I didn’tContinue reading “AI in the Classroom”

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Reflections on Twenty Years of College Teaching, Part 2: Pedagogy

The most important question you can answer for your students, not just after the fact, but from the beginning, is why?

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Reflections on 20 Years of College Teaching

least for students, as it should be, but still the real world.

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Understanding Advising

Since we’re close to graduation again, I thought I’d write down a few thoughts about what faculty advising can and should do, and what it cannot do. Faculty advising should. . . Listen to the student’s own long and short term goals, and/or ask leading questions to help the student figure them out. Recommend aContinue reading “Understanding Advising”

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Thinking Through Degree Choices

I’ve blogged a few times about the topic of choosing a college and degree over the past three years (on April 13 twice and Nov. 3 of 2013; Sept. 9, 2014), but I’m going to try to reframe the topic here in terms of three central questions: What are the emotional facets of your decision to chooseContinue reading “Thinking Through Degree Choices”