Just Visiting

It's a time of change and crisis. We need to ditch the tired conversations that have gotten us nowhere.

Jody Greene, associate vice provost for teaching and learning and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explores a seeming conundrum.

Students paying faculty to not teach is not a good thing. CU Boulder may be showing us a (partial) future.

Surveillance technology is destroying the relationships between instructors and students, and the tech companies are consolidating power. Resist.

There's no good reason not to.

Part of me hoped for a deus ex machina on restoring higher ed, but long term, it may be better this way.

This was sent to me by a student using my book, The Writer's Practice, in her class. It seemed too good not to share.

The primary goal during our pandemic period shouldn't be to return to face-to-face instruction. First order of business is to avoid disruption.