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Decoding The Ivory Tower

Higher Education as if Students Really Matter

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

SoTL at Age 25: A Power Analysis
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

SoTL at Age 25: A Power Analysis

  He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted and capable of maintaining itself to the satisfaction of everybody, must…

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September 3, 2022
Who Killed Colin Powell? Higher Education and COVID Denial
Decoding the Disciplines / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Who Killed Colin Powell? Higher Education and COVID Denial

            We certainly know what killed Colin Powell.  His weakened immune system was unable to withstand the assault of a powerful virus, despite the efforts of those around him to…

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October 24, 2021
Old Dog, New Tricks, and SoTL:  50 Years of Progress
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Old Dog, New Tricks, and SoTL: 50 Years of Progress

  “I hope I didn't sound too much down on teaching. I enjoy it.   And it is not a great deal of work right now. But it’s really not a…

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September 10, 2021
The COVID Kids are Coming
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

The COVID Kids are Coming

Early last March I drove from the Big Ten university, where I taught for forty years, to Bedford, Indiana, where I had been asked to talk to a high school…

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February 28, 2021
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
The Revolt of the College Teachers
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

The Revolt of the College Teachers

 [For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of…

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January 20, 2020
Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department

            I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings.  Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me.           …

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December 2, 2019
The Shame Factories of Academia
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

The Shame Factories of Academia

              The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions.  But in…

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September 9, 2019

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