This post is an entry for Part I of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. “Brett” started the semester well; bright, engaging, asking great questions, and keeping up with all the readings. Midway through the semester, however, things changed. Brett started…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: Responding to Students in Distress
Now that October has arrived, most courses have had their first exams. As students come in to review their scores, one common refrain echoes through the halls, “I knew that, but I just couldn’t remember it!”. Though it might sound like an excuse, the empirical data is clear – human memory is incredibly fallible, even…Continue Reading Whiteboard Animations
Welcome back faculty! We are all now four weeks into our annual sojourn into a new academic year. During our journey as disciplinary experts, we have opportunities to develop and refine the craft of teaching at the college level. The University of Portland and several colleagues on campus offer resources to support our reflective teaching….Continue Reading Supportive Resources for Teaching and Learning
This post is the first entry for Part I of the Mentally Healthy resource guide for UP faculty and academic staff working with students who might have mental health concerns. There is, unfortunately, no magic formula for knowing when a student you know is in serious psychological distress. For one thing, all students experience some…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: Recognizing Students in Distress
This essay is the second in a series of short pieces that offer faculty across the campus an insider’s tour of one of the courses that make up UP’s Core program. Since the Core involves almost a third of the curriculum for every UP student, faculty can benefit from these discipline-by-discipline essays, to better understand…Continue Reading Core Matters: Thinking through Literature in English 112