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Ready for an In-class Sharing Reset? Try the “TRI” Method!

Faculty Focus

Now that many of us have returned to in-person teaching, how can we maximize the setting and incorporate an adapted student-to-student learning structure to support in-class sharing activities? Instead of using an in-class model in which one person shares with the whole class (one at a time), or using a pair-share method, consider a reset and try the use of trios. .

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Paul LeBlanc’s Latest Book is a Must-Read

eLiterate

I’ve been waiting impatiently to write my review of Paul LeBlanc’s Broken: How Our Social Systems Are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them. I was lucky enough to get a pre-release copy. I don’t know why, but I don’t tend to write book reviews. It just doesn’t occur to me most of the time for some reason. But Broken grabbed me by the short hairs.

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New Year, New Job

ACRLog

With the fall semester well underway, we’re all adjusting to more classes and services on the 25 campuses of my university than last year. There are more students on our campuses which is lovely, though there are still lots of hybrid and online classes and services, too. And this year has also featured a different kind of adjusting for me: this past summer I started a new position as director of the library at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.

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Why We Should Worry About the Decline of American Intellectual History as a Field of Study

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. So too are academic fields of study. When I was a doctoral student, many of the foremost U.S. historians were intellectual historians: David Brion Davis at Cornell and Yale, George Fredrickson at Northwestern and Stanford, John Higham at Michigan and Hopkins, and Henry May at Berkeley, among others.

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