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Tenure? They Still Do That? (Legacy Account)

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Well, look what showed up today. Author gratis print copies! Book releases April 16. Available on that e-commerce site (tinyurl.com/4b5kzh82) w/ book preview at publisher (tinyurl.com/46bmaxcj). #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
5 print copies of The Contingent Professor
April 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"University teaching and learning centers are responsible for disseminating best practices to instructors, so how well do their resources reflect the importance of student autonomy?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Article: Choosing to learn
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Choosing to learn: The importance of student autonomy in higher education
Two field studies suggest that giving college students greater autonomy can improve motivation and learning.
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March 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A great read, and very relatable. Found this additional perspective blog post from The Professor is In, quoted in the article. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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March 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I just saw something similar posted by the og edutopia and remembered that I found this corroborating article a while back. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The Research Whisperer Blog 2015: "Do you have a toxic collaborator?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

1. consistently miss deadlines.
2. frequently say ‘I’m the first author’
3. don’t listen to feedback.
4. all take and no give.
5. communicate badly.

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Do you have a toxic collaborator?
At some time in everyone’s academic lives, there will be cause for collaboration angst. It may all start golden: big ideas, excitement about working with new colleagues, the potential for fan…
researchwhisperer.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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2005 Article review of Bain: "A 15-Year Study of 63 Teachers at 24 Institutions Reveals: What the Best College Teachers Do" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Link: www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...
excerpt from article in link
March 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Because electrons charge more 🥁 #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A bad title can bury good research. Make it clear, make it searchable, make it a Marvin Gaye reference. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
March 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Article: “When names are on the line: Negotiating authorship with your team” #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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When names are on the line: Negotiating authorship with your team - Perspectives on Medical Education
Perspectives on Medical Education -
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March 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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College Closures since 2008 (Two ways). Interesting (in an academic sense) to see the mass closures of for profit colleges and now the rise in private nonprofit closures. Public colleges/universities might be the big test. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Best Colleges: Closures 2008 - 2024 Higher Ed Dive: College Closures since 2016
March 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"despite academic speaking and listening–known as academic oracy–also holding a crucial role in supporting students’ engagement with content, critical thinking, groupwork, teaching and learning, and in enhancing their success..." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways
University preparation pathways are an important equity mechanism for opening access to higher education to under-represented students. A vital focus of pathways education is on the academic litera...
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March 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Article: "Assessment of class participation in online and offline learning environments: a qualitative investigation of teachers’ best practices and challenges" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Assessment of class participation in online and offline learning environments: a qualitative investigation of teachers’ best practices and challenges
Class participation is an important indicator of student engagement. As research on assessing class participation is relatively scarce, questions of how to achieve reliability in assessing class pa...
www.tandfonline.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Project Zero: Thinking Routines Toolbox -- "Thinking Routines invite learners of any age to be close observers, organize their ideas, to reason carefully, and to reflect on how they are making sense of things." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox Page
March 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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OPEN ACCESS Book: "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (Accompanying review found in following post) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission.For The Real World of
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March 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"Where have all the humanities majors gone? STEM dominates college campuses" (Shout out to high school journalism) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Where have all the humanities majors gone? STEM dominates college campuses
The 14th century gave rise to the idea of the Renaissance man: an individual who is gifted in a broad range of areas from the arts to the sciences. Leonardo Da Vinci, for example, is famous for his ar...
chantillynews.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Mildly Useful? -- Yale Grad Student Teacher Guides: Teaching a Successful Section > Preparing for Class #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Preparing for Class
Where to Start: A Five-Stage Game Plan for Sections In general, being prepared for class has less to do with how much or how little time you spend preparing, and more to do with how well and how wisel...
poorvucenter.yale.edu
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Article: "Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching."

(Outcome: Class sections that received cookies during course gave better reviews. All else equal.) #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching
Hessler et al. question the validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching after demonstrating that provision of chocolate cookies had a significant effect on course evaluation.
asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The New Yorker: "Can colleges do without deadlines?" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Can Colleges Do Without Deadlines?
Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.
www.newyorker.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Blog Post: "Why Good Students Do “Bad” in College: Why We Should Care and What We Should Do" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Why Good Students Do “Bad” in College: Why We Should Care and What We Should Do - The LearnWell Projects
Updated: October 2023 By the time students enter college, they’ve invested more than 16,000 hours in academic learning. One might expect them to be adept learners, poised for success. However, instead...
thelearnwellprojects.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Department chairs: expected to solve problems they didn’t create with resources they don’t have. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

"Expanding Responsibilities of Department Chairs: Deans’ Roles in Facilitating Professional Development"
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Expanding Responsibilities of Department Chairs: Deans' Roles in Facilitating Professional Development - ACAD
While the role of department chairs has evolved over the past few decades, the thinking on their professional development has generally not kept pace. Here, Susan Gano-Phillips calls attention to some...
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March 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
contingentprof.bsky.social
A joke my co-host used to say on the podcast: You see tenure used be "ten years." Ten years and then you were done. But a transcribing error switched it to tenure and we've been chasing it ever since." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Article: "Eight Myths about Tenure"
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Eight Myths about Tenure
Tenure—the right to continuous employment, which may be terminated only for adequate cause or under conditions of bona fide financial exigency or of a bona fide department or program discontinuance an...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"The students ... didn’t have a problem with their online use during class, rationalizing that since their education was something they paid for, they could do what they wanted ... unless a professor was sufficiently entertaining..." #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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New study finds college students expect their professors to be as entertaining as YouTube
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March 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Your first semester teaching will be an experiment. Your second semester teaching will be tweaking that experiment. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd
March 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Book: Colleges on the Brink. (Ambrose and Nietzel 2023) Be on the lookout for "strategic realignment consultants" coming to a campus near you. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Colleges on the Brink: The Case for Financial Exigency
The book comprehensively examines financial exigency, including its history and current status in higher education. It includes a case history about how exigency can help restore the financial int...
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March 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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NEWS (from 2019, so OLDS?): "Behind the scenes at the STEM-humanities culture war" #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

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Behind the scenes at the STEM-humanities culture war
Chemistry faculty cite the importance of humanities in a scientist’s undergraduate education
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March 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM