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Do you feel inadequate even though you have done well professionally? Do you worry that you could be fired tomorrow, even if you constantly receive positive feedback? Do you work harder than most people in order to prove that you are not an impostor?

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Search committees often place a great deal of importance on cover letters when they're reviewing candidates, but I've yet to meet a job seeker who has received much training or mentoring on how to write one. So what differentiates good cover letters from weak ones?

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.

This is one of the reasons that UCAT sponsors the Mid-Career & Senior Faculty Learning Community.

In January 2011, a trio of researchers published the results of an experiment in which they demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than students who read the same material in conventional, familiar fonts.

Much has been written about how much time an assistant professor should spend on "service" work and what types of service might be important for career advancement, as opposed to a poor use of time, not to mention soul-destroying. The typical advice is: "do some but not a lot."

Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses. Tech-savvy students are finding ways to cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways that are difficult to detect.

"My accessibility statement had always appeared toward the end of my syllabus, almost as an afterthought, or tacked-on necessity. Now, my universal learning statement appears near the top of my syllabus, immediately following my learning outcomes. This placement signals to the students that universal learning is a centerpiece of my pedagogy. Everything else in my teaching follows from that key principle."

Talbert is very good about writing objectives

Courses are always, already part of a curriculum. We need to be sure we meet our obligations to the bigger program.

Interesting thoughts about flipping

"It's hard to give people a path to follow when, by your own admission, you stumbled upon your current career. Serendipity seems to be a theme in many alt-ac narratives, and that is just not inspiring to students who are worried about their futures."

Teaching for transfer in the context of composition courses.

personal items to reduce stress while teaching

I love words!

A small effort that can make a big difference