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You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog. The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.
Student Fellows Professional Development Session Summary
Two current Student Fellows facilitated an Adams Center session on professional development. The following is a summary they wrote on the session. Intro: Two Adams Center Student Fellows, Sam O’Quinn and Ellie Pitcock spoke to faculty about professional development...
2024 Black History Month Celebration
In honor of Black History Month, the Adams Center hosted two sessions celebrating Black influence in a variety of areas. Faculty in various fields of study shared the significance of Black influence in that field. The first session included art, music, and film....
AI Syllabus Statement
In September 2023, Inside Higher Education (IHE) published the Hanover Research Report on Artificial Intelligence: Benefits, Challenges, and Sample Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education. This offers a good overview that you may find helpful in...
Honors Colloquia and Honors Contracts: Fall 2023
Dr. Trey Shirley provided information about applying for and developing an Honors Colloquium. These slides detail the new tracks for the Honors College and the process for creating a colloquium. For the 2024-2025 school year, applications are due January 12, 2024. In...
Supporting Students in College-level Reading: What We Know About Reading and Classroom Strategies for Academic Reading Success, part 2
Today the Adams Center hosted part 2 of the series on supporting students in college-level reading. The activities and ideas shared were directly from Dr. Jenae Cohn's book Skim, Dive, Surface. Slides with these activities are on the second half of this slide deck....
Supporting Students in College-level Reading: What We Know About Reading and Classroom Strategies for Academic Reading Success, part 1
Faculty regularly express concern about the struggles many students encounter when reading and engaging with course reading materials. This weakness, combined with an unwillingness to read class materials, makes it even more difficult for students to engage your...
Attendance, Participation, Engagement… oh, my!
A topic of frequent conversation at the Adams Center includes policies and classroom practices about attendance, participation, and engagement. Faculty often find themselves trying something new each semester or implementing a new, promising plan only to have it go...
Thinking about AI Syllabus Policies
As the semester approaches, the reality of ChatGPT (and other large-language-model tools) use looms large. Students across higher ed report that they use AI extensively, and many faculty are designing ways to use AI in class assignments, activities, and scaffolding....
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