Mental Health Through a Neurodivergent Lens
Mental health and neurodivergence are tied together, and I want to hear more about it. In the simplest of terms, neurodivergent people are put under a lot of stress by moving through a world that is not designed with them…
Publishing as Community-Building
Writing has always seemed like some mystical, enigmatic force to me. As a child, I used to read my favorite books and watch my friends develop elaborate creative writing pieces of their own, and I would wonder how such inspiration…
AI and Learning About Cultures
Several of the high-impact practices in higher education require learners to practice stepping out of their cultural comfort zone. For instance, a co-op or internship can require adapting to the culture of a workplace. Undergraduate research means learning to…
Education Demands an Unwavering Commitment to Equity
Education demands an unwavering commitment to mission, values, and our everyday practices to provide students with information, knowledge, and perspectives from a variety of positionalities and people. I hope this commitment to mission withstands this messy political and societal season…
A Translator: For Understanding and Clarity
Recently, I had the privilege of taking an international trip to speak to several groups about definitions and descriptions of disabilities. I discussed teaching and learning strategies, as well. Everything that I said to these groups was, of course, communicated…
Implementing Effective Feedback Practices: Strategy 2
In part one of this two-part blog, I revisited results from my students who completed the feedback literacy behavior scale (Dawson et al. 2023). I identified two areas in which students demonstrated room for improvement: (1) seeking feedback information; and…
Should AI be Involved in Assessing Student Work?
I was at a campus workshop this week, and we discussed this recent article about a student requesting a tuition refund after discovering a piece of course content was generated by ChatGPT (Hill 2025). I thought the use of the…
Edits, Insights, and Illustrator: My CEL Internship Experience
During my final semester at Elon, I was able to work as a Publishing Intern with the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL). This internship experience became a space where I was able to not only apply what I learned in…
Dismantling the Department of Education: What About the Kids?
On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of dismantling the Department of Education. Although it is still unclear what this order will entail and how the Department of Education would change, I find…
Telling Your Research Story: Maximizing Your SoTL Impact
This is the last installment in a series on impact measurement for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) researchers. The first part covered traditional metrics, while the second showcased newer, more unconventional ways to track impact. As noted in the…