Category: Additional 5
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Campus Resources
I was thinking about how graduate students and faculty have a different relationship with campus than undergraduates, and how that might mean we have to do a little extra work if we want to be of most benefit possible to our students. I first came to Virginia Tech as a student in graduate school. My sister…
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Classroom Engagement
When I was in undergrad, I was a peer facilitator for a group of 10 students in a freshman year seminar for the honors college. Each year, I had a variety of student personalities and strengths, including the exuberant and outgoing students and also the thoughtful and shy students. I was fortunate to have such…
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More on Technology in the Classroom
I think technology in the classroom has come up a few times in our class discussions. I have had conversations about with faculty and peers within my department, as well, and in fact it was a topic I had considered for my scholarly essay in this class. I think as we move forward and technology…
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On Privilege
Every individual is an intersection of identities and just as many identities run along spectrums, each identity is also associated with a certain degree of privilege. Privilege is not inherently or necessarily a bad thing; it is just something that we must acknowledge and to which we can choose to respond. I think a lot…
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On Academic Freedom and Inclusive Education
I found this article on Inside Higher Ed the other day and thought there were interesting conversations going on in the comments section. Someone pointed out that Sweden doesn’t have the same standards for academic freedom as the United States, so while Ringmar is perfectly entitled to his personal opinions about the role and power of…
Dr. Diana Devine 