reflection

Summer Reading on the Human Mind

The New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange, Spring 2010, includes a great list of readings about the Human Mind, put together by G. Christian Jernstedt: humanmind

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Harvard Professor Ellen Langer has been talking about mindful learning for three decades. She is now applying her mindfulness research to the question of aging brains and bodies. Her new […]

A very concise version for quick classroom feedback: minutepaper

BCC Faculty Survey - Prelim Results

Here are some preliminary results of the Fall 09 faculty survey, more details to come. Thanks to all who contributed! Total respondents: 64 (Full time: 33; Part time: 31) = 33% […]

The New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) is now accepting registrations for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday, November 13th at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. […]

Professional Day Sep 09 Evaluation

This evaluation showed quite an interesting mixture of opinions. Most attendees liked the presentations by colleagues, but a significant minority would have preferred an outside speaker. Many noted the small […]

Think Again, A blog by Stanley Fish in the New York Times: What Should Colleges Teach? A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, […]

If you open the link at the end of this post, you can view the graphic for the age group 15-24 (as well as other demographics), and then slide along […]

Even ultra-liberal Cambridge has vestiges of racism. Even internationally respected scholars can be treated as criminals. Profiling is something a white person will likely never experience. An Offering from Peggy McIntosh’s […]