Assigning Group Work (That Works)
February 19, 2018 Students hate group work. From meetings with no agendas to students who stop showing up and projects in which one person completes...
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Engaging Our Community of Teaching Scholars
February 6, 2018 “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it...
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Beat the Cheat
January 30, 2018 Cheating happens. It happens online. It happens face-to-face. It happens at Ivy League Universities. It happens on tests. It happens on papers....
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Mindful Makeups for Cancelled Classes
January 17, 2018 As kids, we exuberantly embraced holidays created by Mother Nature. As instructors, however, cancellations create scheduling complications and concerns about missing important...
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The Power of One
In our consultations, conversations with faculty inevitably steer toward concerns about time and the challenges of change. As we begin a new semester and a...
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Have a great semester break!
The end of the semester brings a sense of accomplishment, a frustration about things undone, and the eternal hope of a new semester. How...
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Helping Students Weather Harvey
Most of us spent last week watching Hurricane Harvey’s ongoing devastation with a combination of disbelief and dismay. Although San Antonio was spared, the same...
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New Faculty Institute
This program introduces new faculty to the culture of research and instructional excellence at UTSA through a series of six workshops and a year-end luncheon....