Volume XLVII, No. 12 | September 18, 2025 It Isn’t Common Sense: Sharing Tips from Learning Science to Support Student Success Introduction Faculty routinely use what is known about how people learn to design and deliver courses effectively. However, there is a ceiling on how effective teaching can be when students lack [...]
Volume XLVII, No. 10 | August 21, 2025 The Power of Communication Connection In the realm of higher education, particularly within community colleges, effective communication is critical to fostering connection and building a culture of support among faculty, staff, and students. For faculty members, communication goes beyond lecturing or advising—it involves creating [...]
Volume XLVII, No. 3 | February 20, 2025 Strengthening Students' Argumentation Skills to Enhance Source Credibility Assessment: A Study on Critical Thinking in Online Research The way students approach research has changed dramatically with the rise of the internet. While more information is readily available within seconds, I found my students often [...]
Volume XLVII, No. 2 | February 2, 2025 Using ChatGPT to Improve Your Instruction Generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”) took the education world by storm in late 2022 and has triggered frequent predictions on how this technology may positively or negatively affect higher education. In this article, I propose some ways that this [...]
Volume XLVII, No. 1 | January 23, 2025 Emotional Labor: The Unseen Baggage Causing Faculty Burnout Anne knew something was wrong, but she could not put her finger on it. Each day before class, she felt the need to pump herself up to give her lectures. Exhausted after a 75-minute class session, [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 16 | November 14, 2024 Using Class Participation to Create Test Questions Introduction There is a sub-population of students who enter each freshman class with marginal qualifications. The following activities were developed to help this sub-group of students have a positive learning experience. The activities described include the use [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 15 | October 31, 2024 Promoting Diversity in STEM History: A Multicultural Perspective Introduction: What Does the Data Say? In the contemporary landscape of the STEM workforce, Hispanic, Asian, and Black workers represent 15%, 10%, and 9% respectively1. Conversely, American Indians and Alaska Natives collectively constitute less than 1% [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 14 | October 17, 2024 The Apposite Learning Model: Forging Students Into Skilled Professionals of the Future Acquiring or enhancing soft skills is an important part of the learning process. Examples of soft skills are interpersonal communication, time management, adaptability, problem solving. The importance of soft skills has been highlighted [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 13 | October 3, 2024 A Recipe for a Successful Collaboration: Coming Together, Staying Together, Working Together Introduction One approach to teaching complex concepts to students is to teach from multiple perspectives—i.e., integrative interprofessional teaching. Integrative interprofessional teaching is when two faculty, from two different schools, two different disciplines, [...]
Volume XLVI, No. 11 | September 5, 2024 Humanities and Pedagogy: Freud and Jung Using films to teach Freudian and Jungian psychology is a unique way to introduce psychoanalysis to students. Carl Jung's study of archetypes and the human psyche is a significant departure from Freudian perspectives. Both divergent viewpoints can allow [...]
