Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at Notre Dame, has written a fascinating and stark study of higher education. The short answer for why so many young people dislike college is that it’s too much like school and not enough like learning. The artifice of school has displaced our natural love of collaborative learning […]
On Thursday, January 21, Dr. Anita August and the Writing Across the Curriculum program hosted a talk for faculty on race, writing, and literacy with guest speaker David E. Kirkland. Kirkland is Associate Professor of English Education in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Department of Teaching and Learning at New York […]
It’s not every day that an assignment becomes a campaign. That’s exactly what happened last month in my American Government course. We have been working on various public policy issues — immigration, energy, gun control, etc. During one of our last meetings before spring break, I asked the students to come up with a public event […]
