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Behind the Screens: My Semester in Publishing at CEL 

Joining the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) as a publishing intern during my spring semester senior year was definitely an exciting opportunity as I loved learning about the publishing process through my Publishing and Editing 1 course. I knew this…

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First-Year Seminars and International Students

Special Series – First-Year Seminars | Episode 5 In the fifth episode of our special series on first-year seminars, Sara Chilton synthesizes research on how international students are influenced by first-year seminars. View a transcript of this episode. Show Credits…

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Implementing Effective Feedback Practices: Strategy 1 

Two blog posts ago, I shared my early spring semester plans for giving students effective feedback and promoting their feedback literacy in an early college calculus course. Going into that semester, I realized that to promote student feedback literacy, it…

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Higher Education is Worth Fighting For

Limed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 3, Episode 9 Since January 20, 2025, a plethora of political activity and announcements have created instability and concern across the U.S. higher education sector, with ripple effects in the international landscape. In this episode,…

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The Future of Signature Work Research  

As we wrap up this series on signature work in higher education, in this final post, I explore the future of signature work research.  Current State of Signature Work Research  The varying types of signature work are not new in…

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Perspectives on Alternative Grading 

“Traditional” grading is a term used to describe the most common form of grading in an academic setting. In recent years, it has been seen that courses implementing this grading system “tend to be more oriented towards product over process,…