[Participants from our institution] are already terrific educators who have fantastic end-of-the-course evaluations, but they’re taking an extra few steps to help students be successful. It was surprising to hear faculty talk about how much more intentional they were in acknowledging students, validating their efforts to pursue a degree. It was amazing to see faculty start to think deeply about that.
Introductory mathematics sits at the center of many of higher education’s most persistent challenges: student momentum, retention, and timely progress into majors. Institutions know these courses matter, yet efforts to …
Faculty are often exposed to the finer points of digital accessibility through intimidating technical language such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Faculty development programs typically present those technical standards …
Faculty commonly assign lab reports, presentations, discussion posts, research papers, and reflections that ask students to practice communication, problem solving, analysis, teamwork, and self-directed learning. All of those are skills …