Faculty

As another semester enters its final stage, I find myself captivated by the profound transformations unfolding among my 140 freshmen students. Each autumn ushers a new wave of eighteen-year-olds through my classroom door, their faces illuminated by that distinctive blend of trepidation and anticipation. This year stands apart – not for dramatic revelations or sweeping

Your brain is running its fastest hardware right now. The science says protecting your sleep is part of studying – not the opposite of it. It’s 1 a.m. in the third-floor study room, and Maria is making her case. “One more hour. I’ll sleep when the semester’s over.” She says it the way she serves

Why Critical Thinking is Harder to Teach than Ever – and Why That Should Worry Anyone Who Cares about the Next Generation Ask employers what they want most from college graduates and the answer has been remarkably consistent for more than a decade. The American Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Colleges

A guest speaker in my Applied Investments course paused mid-sentence, scanned the room full of business majors, and asked the question I’d been quietly asking myself for a year: “Why is nobody on a laptop?” A student answered before I could. She said she’d stopped taking notes on a laptop – in this class, and

A Call to Transform Higher Education – through Individual Actions The world has changed. The economy has changed. Technology has changed. The students arriving on our campuses have changed. Yet walk into many college classrooms today and you will find an educational model that would be recognizable to a professor from 1925 – lectures delivered