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General Education Examined

My sister recently visited a physician in Manila who turned out to be a former undergraduate student of mine in...

Grading Student Essays or How to Give Constructive Feedback

The topic of this blog post comes naturally to me, as I sit surrounded by over 40 essays waiting for...

Separation of Home and Office: Home-Offices and Homey Offices

Every morning I wake up, get dressed, put on my make-up, drink a glass of cold milk with no sugar...

Read Me

For several years during my early 20’s, I kept a journal that I called the “Read Me Journal.” There are...

The Post-Modern MRS

The benighted “MRS” degree bore a particular meaning for my mother’s generation. Young women went off to college with minimal...

Academia 2.0: What it is all about?

How much time per day do I spend on social media? And how does it compare with, for example, the...

Wait, I'm a What, Now?

“You’ve inspired me to want to become a professor.” This is what one of my students recently told me, in...

A Course is not a Class is not a Section

Are classes the same thing as courses and sections? Simple questions about student data can quickly disintegrate into details too...