This post is co-authored between Associate Professor Troy Murphy and Anna Lariviere—Psychology Major, Public Health Minor, and President of the First Generation Student Organization at University of Michigan—Dearborn I don’t remember exactly how I became… Read More »On being a First Generation College Student (. . . and Faculty and Staff)
A model for talking to students about genAI from asynchronous English Literature courses For my second blog post of my Hub Affiliate series “Responding to Generative AI with an Ethics of Care,” I want to… Read More »Conversation as Care: Why Talking to Students About AI is Our Most Essential Task Right Now
Like many other educators, I am not alone in feeling that Generative AI has upended my world. As a literature professor who teaches most of my classes in the online asynchronous format, my entire pedagogy… Read More »Yes, we need an AI policy for our courses. But developing one is just the beginning
In a time of information overload, the flux of input might seem to either dull individuality or motivate it, curb creativity or encourage it. One of the roles of teachers in the classroom is to… Read More »Make it Your Own: Creative Projects as Agency in Language and Literature Classes
I teach a variety of writing classes–comp 105 and 106, Intro to Creative Writing, upper-level essay writing–but I haven’t used an official textbook in years. I tend to “curate” syllabi around whole-course themes and/or break… Read More »Open Pedagogies in Writing and Statistics
In 2021, with the help of student collaborators, Ben Wielechowski created the Open Educational Resources (OER) textbook, Introduction to Narrative Journalism. Wielechowski and some of his students are featured in the recent Wolverzine, a campus… Read More »Students as OER Partners
This blog post is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at Bucknell University on efforts to restrict teaching about sexuality and gender. I was invited as part of a panel that included… Read More »LGBTQ+ People and Curricula: What Is at Stake and for Whom?
A note to readers: I have chosen to put hyperlinks at the end rather than throughout the post. For me, links add to the jumping mind and difficulty focusing that I experience online. I am… Read More »Pedagogy in Reactionary Times
By Patrick Beauchesne, Hub Faculty Affiliate 2022 (added to blog by Jessica Riviere) “The physiological response to stress…evolved in the context of acute stressors. The chronic nature of stress in modern life forces the body… Read More »Collective Care is Self-Care
Author: Patrick Beauchesne one of our 2021-2022 Hub Faculty Affiliates Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash “A punishing intensification of work has become an endemic feature of academic life. Again, serious discussion of this is… Read More »The Invisible Wounds of Workaholism: Pushing Back Against Academic Conventions