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May 9, 2023

Remote Opportunities in Work-Integrated Learning: Considerations for Moving Forward

by CJ Eubanks Fleming

The concept and practice of the remote internship/placement were not new in 2020. Over the past several decades, more and more work has been done out of the office and out of the bounds of typical workday time constraints (Dean…

An apple keyboard rests on a wooden desk next to a planner. The planner shows a dotted grid show a Monday and Tuesday, the 26 and 27 of a month; the only thing written on the page is "#ToDo". Text along the bottom reads, "Could some of the pedagogical shifts made during the 'pivots of the pandemic' be hurting the students we were trying to help?"

March 14, 2023

Ableism in Academia: The Uneven Impacts of Distraction and Procrastination

by Caroline J. Ketcham

Recently in one of my productive distraction moments, I came across a tweet thread from Dr. Hannah Snyder (@Hannah_R_Snyder) that spurred reflection for me in my teaching, and has led to this discussion in this platform more broadly. Two articles…

A girl looking at a computer with a woman in a city. A Phone open to the notes app reads "higher education as a whole needs to invest in opportunities alternative to study abroad so more students may benefit from these experiences"

February 21, 2023

Learning from the Past: Alternative Ways to Build Intercultural Competency

by Elana Gutmann

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities around the world found ways to make studying away more accessible to students, particularly through virtual platforms and trips into their local communities. A few programs are discussed in more detail below,…

September 7, 2020

Ask your students: The value of student input on online course design

by Sophia Abbot and Geneva Stein

For Jeongmin Cho, a junior at Princeton University from Seoul, South Korea, the transition to remote learning this spring was a transition to an entirely new form of teaching and learning. He explains, “I have grown up in a traditional…

August 24, 2020

Designing Online or Hybrid/Flex Study Away Experiences

In response to shifts to online learning due to COVID-19 in spring 2020 and in anticipation of alternate models for higher education in fall 2020 and beyond, we have curated publications and online resources that can help inform programmatic and…

As universities were transitioning to distance learning, many of us had to consider how to continue to support our undergraduate research mentees.

July 17, 2020

Lessons Learned from Mentoring Undergraduate Research this Summer

by Eric E. Hall, Elizabeth Bailey, Simon Higgins, Takudzwa Madzima, Svetlana Nepocatych, Matthew W. Wittstein, and Caroline J. Ketcham

Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentoring This past March, as universities were transitioning to distance learning, in addition to figuring out how to teach our classes remotely, many of us had to consider how to continue to support our undergraduate…