Dissertation Writing: “it’s how you play the game”

In my doctoral program, those of us who are in “dissertation writing mode” meet once a week for a few hours of working time and forced accountability. I’m not sure I’m very good at this accountability thing. If my psyche responded to accountability as a motivating factor, all those years of Weight Watchers would have …

The “expectations” of the college experience – where do these come from?

Prof. Jim Lang’s essay On Not Drawing Conclusions About Online Teaching Now — or Next Fall raised some interesting considerations that have become especially salient in our COVID-19 world: the expectations of first-year students and what they think the college experience is and the value of online teaching as it relates to the college experience. …