Hoover Library: Center for Faculty Excellence Digital Library: Higher Education & Student Culture

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Students Who Feel Emotionally Unprepared for College Struggle in the Classroom [CHE]
How to Teach in an Age of Distraction [CHE]
Kill the 5-Paragraph Essay, by John Warner
"The 5-paragraph essay is indeed a genre, but one that is entirely uncoupled from anything resembling meaningful work when it comes to developing a fully mature writing process. If writing is like exercise, the 5-paragraph essay is more Ab Belt than sit-up."

A Guide to the Flipped Classroom, The Chronicle of Higher Education
A collection of CHE articles on the subject of Flipped Classroom
Why Academic Writing Stinks and How to Fix it: 10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly, by Stephen Pinker
A short essay by Stephen Pinker (MIT) on the perils of academic writing. This is part of his larger, and excellent book, A Sense of Style
Alcohol's Hold on Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education
Collection of articles from the CHE on the subject of alcohol on campuses and how it's keeping us from being able to do our jobs properly
Campus Sexual Assault in Context, Chronicle of Higher Education
Collection of articles from the CHE on the subject of sexual assault on campuses
How to be a Dean, Chronicle of Higher Education
Collection of articles from the CHE on the subject of how to be a modern dean