Page 18 - Teaching Amp Learning News Today

Faculty Evaluation After the Pandemic In our post-Covid personnel landscape, one-size-fits-all tenure and promotion policies are destined to fall short. Getty On what is hopefully the downhill side of the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s a lot of discussion across higher education about “getting back to normal” or “navigating a new normal.” But “back to normal” is an airy fantasy, not a strategic plan. As the playwright Tom Stoppard once observed, it’s impossible to stir thin...

How to Make Mental Health a Top Priority This Fall and Beyond Your institution is failing students, a professor argues, if it isn’t helping them understand the links between stress, trauma, and learning. Getty Images One afternoon while I was studying for my doctoral comprehensive exam, my mother called, sobbing, to tell me that someone I loved dearly had been killed in Baghdad. It happened after the U.S. invasion of Iraq — one of many incidents inhumanely labeled “ collateral dam...