As higher education faces a complex and ambiguous future, it is imperative that institutions are well equipped with a cache of competent, talented and committed administrative staff members, and we need to be disciplined and...
Farrell, Amy. Academia's Anti-Fat Problem. Bitch Media (blog). June 6, 2013. https://bitchmedia.org/post/academias-anti-fat-problem, "Dear obese PhD applicants: if you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't...
Dan Schubert is a professor of Sociology at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Amazon's Website., Brown, Richard Harvey and J. Daniel Schubert. "Academic Knowledge and Political Power in...
This study examines the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students enrolled in Social Foundations of Education at a private liberal arts college in the mid-Atlantic region. Findings suggest that students developed a...
Inquiry-based undergraduate laboratories provide the opportunity to engage students in a research experience that improves scientific thinking, but such activities can be difficult to develop and implement due to limited time...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., Bowen, Jennifer, Mark Kozek, Pamela Pierce, and Jennifer Schaefer. Advice for First-Year Seminar Instructors. In...
Yost and Gilmore report the findings of a climate study of a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. This climate assessment was comprehensive in content (heterosexual and cisgender individuals' attitudes, and LGBTQ individuals'...
Key Takeaways: Mobile technology offers the ability to combine immediate access to information and location through augmented reality and geotagging. Dickinson College students in a summer study-abroad program partnered with...
Bryant, Sarah N., and Jennifer B. Schaefer. Becoming Successful Proof-Writers Through Peer Review, Journals, and Portfolios. In Beyond Lecture: Resources and Pedagogical Techniques for Enhancing the Teaching of Proof-Writing...
Various existing learning environments could scale to MOOC size and benefit learners by adding the social elements now missing, from citizen science to simulations, games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. While those of...
Games provide opportunities for students to actively apply and build their understandings of concepts. This presents great potential for online students, who must engage with course content on their own schedules. At North...
D'Agostino, Susan, Sarah Bryant, Amy Buchmann, Michelle Craddock Guinn, and Leona Harris, eds. A Celebration of the EDGE Program's Impact on the Mathematics Community and Beyond. Cham: Springer, 2019., The Enhancing Diversity...
For more information on the published version, visit Springer's Website., Many sustainability educators want to more effectively engage their students with climate policy. They also seek to support students’ civic and change...
For more information on the published version, visit Princeton University Press's Website., Ball, David M. Close Reading Comics. In The Pocket Instructor, Literature: 101 Exercises for the College Classroom, edited by Diana...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit The FLTMAG's Website., There has been extensive research on the...
Published as:Bombaro, Christine, Pamela Harris, and Kerri Odess-Harnish. A Constellation to Guide Us: An Interview with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe about the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Reference...
This article argues small departments are ideal laboratories for innovative structures of collaboration. Beginning with the smallest nit—an individual teacher “collaborating with herself” to mine good ideas from one course to...
This thesis examines how higher academia is moving to becoming more diverse and inclusive through a case study of the institutional changes of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). As higher academia...
For more information on the published version, visit The Escapist's Website., A student came to my office last week and asked for help setting up a LAN game of Civ IV in one of the college's computer labs. He was going to play...
The volume of which this essay is a part, Teaching Victorian Literature in the 21st Century, is a valuable addition to the literature of teaching at the college and university level. Such a volume is particularly useful in...
Bryant, Sarah, and Jessica Spott. The EDGE Program: 20 Years and Counting. In A Celebration of the EDGE Program's Impact on the Mathematics Community and Beyond, edited by Susan D'Agostino, Sarah Bryant, Amy Buchmann,...
Randy Olson’s book, Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style , was used to supplement a senior seminar in nanomaterials. While students learned about the chemistry behind useful properties of...
Four women involved in providing services for women on campuses respond to a recent essay criticizing the Education Department's guidance on responding to reports of sexual assault. We write in response to the essay “An Open...
Wolff, Andrew T. European Security: The Missing Piece of European Studies Curriculum in the United States.Journal of Contemporary European Studies 25, no. 2 (2017): 243-257....
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Educause's Website., Bryant, Todd. Everything Depends on the Data....
Supplementing the foreign language curriculum with the incorporation of art museum visits has benefits for students, faculty, the campus art gallery, and the institution. Such a collaborative program serves to expand the...
This case study describes the integration of language exchanges into the Japanese program at Dickinson College, USA. The oral synchronous exchanges used Skype, the Japanese social networking site Mixi, and a website developed...
The author questions whether the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education truly adheres to Meyer and Land's Threshold Concept theory and criticizes the Association of College and Research Libraries for their slow...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Academic Common's Website., Bryant, Todd. "From Age of Empires to Zork:...
Ball, David M., William Gleason, and Nancy J. Peterson. From All Sides: Rethinking Professionalization in a Changing Job Market. Pedagogy 15, no. 1 (2015): 103-118. http://muse.jhu.edu/article/563211, This article makes the...
Samet, Cindy, and Suresh Valiyaveettil. Fruit and Vegetable Peels as Efficient Renewable Adsorbents for Removal of Pollutants from Water: A Research Experience for General Chemistry Students. Journal of Chemical Education 95,...
Games and simulations are an exciting and frequently debated topic among instructional technologists because of their potential to recreate traditional pedagogical concepts in an exciting way. Learner-centered and...
Higher education does a great job educating others, but seldom do we work on ourselves. We don't take the time to 'sharpen the saw.' As a result, colleges and universities are filled with very sharp people who possess rather...
For more information on the published versions, visit HuffPost's Website., Neil Leary's HuffPost blog posts include: -Can Colleges Create a Climate for Pricing Carbon. - Date posted, May 9, 2017. -"Nitrogen Pollution: An...
This essay locates forensics within national discourse about high-impact practices (HIPs) in higher education, as outlined by scholar George D. Kuh. Forensics shares all the characteristics associated with the ten promising...
Many post-secondary academic institutions in the United States have a First-Year Seminar Program. These seminars are designed to support the success of new incoming first-year students by combining writing, research and active...
Internationalizing the Writing Center provides a rationale, pedagogical plan, and administrative method for developing a multilingual writing center. The book incorporates work from writing center studies as well as second...
Emily Marshall is a professor of Economics at Dickinson College., The authors of this article examine trends in the economics discipline regarding the classification of some undergraduate economics majors, i.e., econometrics...
Dan Schubert is a professor of Sociology at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Amazon's Website., This volume offers a close look at one of the most pressing topics in academia today-the...
Why use computer games in a liberal arts educational context? In general, their educational potential is recognized because there is significant evidence that “learning is most effective when it is active, experiential,...
In our first few years as Assistant Professors of Psychology (midway through our fourth and third years, respectively), we have found ourselves frequently discussing the issue of coming out in the classroom, probably because we...
Bryant, Sarah, Amy Buchmann, Michelle Craddock Guinn, Susan D'Agostino, and Leona Harris. The Long-Lasting Impact of EDGE: Testimonials from the EDGE Community. In A Celebration of the EDGE Program's Impact on the Mathematics...
Howard, Jessica L., and Maiko Arashiro. Make a UNESCO and ACRL Learning Goals Sandwich: Connecting Sustainability Education and Information Literacy Instruction to Solve Global Problems. In The Sustainable Library's Cookbook,...
Two years ago I left the ADE conference brimming with ideas to apply to my first weeks of a three-year appointment as chair of Dickinson College's largest department, with seventeen full-time faculty members, two newly...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., I discuss my experience at Dickinson College teaching a first-year seminar investigating the portrayals of...