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Quick Reads

Below you will find a collection of quick reads on big issues in higher education, subdivided by topic. The idea is to satiate or stimulate your curiosity about topics and trends in faculty development, higher education, and teaching and learning. All are jargon-free, yet informative. Some even have immediate take-aways and applications to your classes and career. So scroll through each category and enjoy!

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Teaching and Learning

Assessment

Student Success

1. 02-20-2020 We Know What Works to Close the Completion Gap The Chronicle of Higher Education
2. 08-29-2019 Professors offer advice on teaching students to email them Inside Higher Ed
3. 07-15-2019 Shifting Your Mindset From 'I Have To' To 'I Get To' Huffpost
4. 02-19-2019 Teaching the Skill of Learning to Learn Inside Higher Ed
5. 01-22-2019 Student-Centered Learning and Student Buy-In Inside Higher Ed
6. 12-12-2018 'Going To Office Hours Is Terrifying' And Other Tales Of Rural Students In College NPR
7. 12-10-2018 Teaching the Students We Have, Not the Students We Wish We Had The Chronicle of Higher Education
8. 12-06-2018 How One University Uses ‘Sneaky Learning’ to Help Students Develop Good Study Habits The Chronicle of Higher Education
9. 11-21-2018 Beyond the midterms: Helping students overcome the impact of No Child Left Behind Brookings
10. 06-2018 Impact of Higher Education Culture on Student Mindset and Success International Journal of Process Education
11. 08-30-2017 Resilience isn’t just being tough; it’s a skill you can develop. Here’s how I did it. The Washington Post
12. 06-01-2017 Critical and Alternative Perspectives on Student Engagement Inside Higher Ed
13. 05-01-2017 Politically Divided: Annual survey of first-year college students reveals deep partisan splits. Inside Higher Ed
14. 02-02-2017 Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data The New York Times
15. 01-11-2017 The Tyranny of Being On Task: Students need periodic breaks to ease brain strain, and the perceived demand that they should always be on task is unrealistic. Edutopia
16. 11-16-2016 Ugly Consequences of Complaining about ‘Students These Days’ The Teaching Professor
17. 09-21-2015 The Unwritten Rules of College The Chronicle of Higher Education
18. 07-08-2015 The Work We Do While We Sleep The New Yorker

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