Critical Takes are posts which address problematic power structures and advocate for more equitable frameworks
On February 15th Bonnie Stewart gave the closing keynote presentation for our Digital Education Days – a collaboration between University of Michigan – Dearborn, University of Michigan – Flint, and Henry Ford College. I had… Read More »Recording Available: Bonnie Stewart Keynote
Estimated read time: 4 minutes Note: This post pertains to email privacy policies at the University of Michigan. If you are not part of the UMich community we hope that this post will give you… Read More »What you need to know about email privacy at University of Michigan
On Thursday, October 28th The Hub was thrilled to host another public event in conjunction with Jesse Stommel’s virtual residency with our campus: a panel discussion on Critical Digital Pedagogy with Ruha Benjamin, Sean Michael… Read More »Recording Available! Critical Digital Pedagogy Panel
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Land acknowledgement statements at UM Dearborn It is Indigenous People’s Day in Michigan and in the United States. There are many ways to use this date to remind ourselves and our students about the intersection… Read More »Recognizing where we are
Last Friday Oct 1st, 2021 the Hub was super excited to host a keynote with Jesse Stommel! We had 200 people register and about 150 in attendance. Some folks reached out with technical trouble and… Read More »Recording Available! Start by Trusting Students; Start by Trusting Teachers Keynote
In the era of remote learning, student group chats should be encouraged—not regarded with suspicion and punished. They carry many benefits for both faculty and students, promoting peer learning and providing a source of community… Read More »Humanizing Higher Education Through Group Chats
If like me you hate grading, you might be interested to read about some approaches to “labor-based” grading that I’ve been trying—including some of the struggles and questions I’ve had. But first, like an internet… Read More »Labor-based Grading and Lowering the Stakes
Estimated read time 1 minute 51 seconds via Niram In the forward to her edited volume Ungrading, Susan Blum quotes one of her undergraduate students from her grade-free (until the end) class from Fall of… Read More »Learning Together: Ungrading
This blog was written by Michael MacDonald as part of the work for the Hub Affiliates program. For decades, teacher-scholars with liberatory dispositions have questioned how grading systems in higher education have long been “presented… Read More »Labor-based Grading – A Short Annotated Bibliography Chapter One: The Bicameral Mind
My HUB Affiliate project is deeply rooted in my work on the College and University Pantries (CUP) Research team. Through this work, I’ve come to understand that college, which is often thought of as a… Read More »Education, Class Mobility, and Pedagogy