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...