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The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, part of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, has joined forces with the Sustained Dialogue Institute to offer a “help desk” for advice and troubleshooting about difficult conversations for college instructors. You can submit an inquiry, and a team of nine experienced scholars and educators will respond with suggestions for how to address the conflict, be it with a student, administration, or community groups. Read more about it here.
Do you feel disconnected from students in the classroom, and are your tried-and-true strategies for making connections just not working? Kristi Rudenga recently wrote an essay for the Chronicle about strategies you can use to foster a human connection in your classes. She encourages using concrete ways to celebrate students, learning names, and soliciting information about students’ thoughts and experiences. She also suggests that it’s important to “resist the urge to trash talk your students.” Instead, instructors should reflect on the feelings that created the urge, and perhaps identify an area that is creating the disconnect between faculty and students.
Elon University and the American Association of Colleges and Universities have created “A guide to navigating college in the AI era.” While geared towards students, it contains a strong discussion of how students might use AI, responsibly, in their college careers.
In September, an editorial by Jessica Winter in the New Yorker discusses the use—or nonuse—of deadlines in classes.