The Job Archive

Turn your student evaluations into an opportunity where you can be the student, and your students can teach you about how they learn best. By Dr. Virginia Lamothe This past week, the Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article by Chris Quintana …

Get a student’s perspective by taking a few online courses yourself! Typically, when I post my personal introduction to an online class at the beginning of a session, I include my education and experience information, but I also make sure to empathize …

Help prepare students for a productive research strategy by demonstrating the differences between poplar and scholarly sources. Okay, think fast. How do you tell the difference between popular and scholarly sources? Maybe a little list runs through your head, like this: Is …

Musicologist Dr. Virginia Lamothe shares her strategy for identifying and augmenting student strengths for a productive and respectful classroom environment A year before I graduated with my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I took a supplementary, non-required …

It’s that time of year, again, when you’re probably considering – or have completed – the practice of submitting midterm grades. If you are still on the fence of whether or not to do midterm grades, then here are a few points …

“I got a black-cat bone, I got a Mojo too, I got a John-the-cockaroo, I’m gonna mess with you.” These are the indomitable words of Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man” that kept running through my head as I rebooted my computer for …

Why do I get the blues at the end of each semester? Each time a course ends, pretty much as soon as I submit course grades, I experience the blues: I feel slightly bored, restless, dissatisfied. It usually takes me a week …

Nutrition Education in the Community Assistant Clinical Professor of Nutrition Katie Ferraro, MPH, RD, CDE, explores a variety of industries in which prospective nutrition and dietetics professionals can find rewarding careers. As a Registered Dietitian and nutrition educator, I get lots of questions from …