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Decoding The Ivory Tower

Higher Education as if Students Really Matter

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This author has written 26 articles
Mendacity on a Big Screen: MLK Day at the University
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Mendacity on a Big Screen: MLK Day at the University

Martin Luther King Day, 2020 -- It was a deeply painful spectacle to watch. In front of perhaps a thousand people, the President of my university was called upon to…

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January 17, 2021
Trump, Shame, and the College Classroom
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Trump, Shame, and the College Classroom

    Like much of the world’s population, I have spent the last four years contemplating what has led so many people to support Donald Trump, despite a series of shameful…

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December 2, 2020
Where the Buck Stops
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Where the Buck Stops

            Yes, there was always someone who screwed up before students arrived in our classes. There were parents who failed their children, teachers who failed their students, and a society…

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November 11, 2020
Foucault’s Soldiers
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Foucault’s Soldiers

            Several decades ago, when the writings of Michel Foucault were at the peak of their popularity in academia, my former colleague, Jim Riley, remarked insightfully that what was most…

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October 11, 2020
Vampire Universities
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Vampire Universities

            It was a test of my parenting, and I think I passed. We were on a trip to investigate colleges with our teen-aged son, and Yale had become part…

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September 24, 2020
COVID-19 and the Unindicted Co-Conspirators of Academia
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

COVID-19 and the Unindicted Co-Conspirators of Academia

It is a lovely image, a beautiful example of the high quality of contemporary newspaper photography. The composition is perfect. The diagonal slats of the blinds carry the viewers’ eyes…

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August 3, 2020
Postcards of an Education
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Postcards of an Education

            Jean-Luc Goddard’s 1963 agitprop film, Les Carabiniers, was a New Wave shaggy dog story. For most of the somewhat tedious film the two loutish protagonist commit a series of…

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July 6, 2020
Mitch Daniels, Purdue University, and the COVID-19 Calculus
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Mitch Daniels, Purdue University, and the COVID-19 Calculus

            This blog was initially inspired primarily by my sense that students and their learning had relatively little value in the decisions made in higher education. To capture this concern,…

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June 1, 2020
Decoding On-Line Learning
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching Strategies

Decoding On-Line Learning

Moving Beyond Pedagogical Triage in the Covid-19 Era In the last few months teachers around the world at all levels of education have been presented an unprecedented challenge. Facing the…

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May 21, 2020
Pedagogical Triage
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Pedagogical Triage

In higher education, as in so many other areas of our lives, the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. At least in the short term the impossible has…

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April 5, 2020
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About David Pace

About David Pace

David Pace

I am an emeritus professor in the History Department of Indiana University Bloomington, where I have taught since 1971. As the co-director with Joan Middendorf of the Freshman Learning Project, I helped create the Decoding the Disciplines approach to student learning, and I have been working with the scholarship of teaching and learning in its inception. I am dedicated to improving the quality of instruction in higher education as part of the effort to fight back against the inequality of opportunity that plagues our planet. I regularly give talks and workshops around the world on Decoding the Disciplines, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and history teaching. Click here to find out more about me and my work.

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