Teaching in Higher Ed

How College Students Make, Keep, and Lose Friends with Janice McCabe

with Janice McCabe

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Janice McCabe shares her research on campus loneliness and college friendship networks on episode 627 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


Something I hear from students a lot is just this appreciation for taking friendship seriously in students' lives. And so that's something that professors, teachers, college administrators can do.

The previous surgeon general, among others, have declared a loneliness crisis facing the United States, and, in fact, the highest rates are among young adults.
-Janice McCabe

Many people that I interviewed told me how they felt like everyone else either had more friends than them, had better friends than them, was having more fun than them, along those lines.
-Janice McCabe

Something I hear from students a lot is just this appreciation for taking friendship seriously in students' lives. And so that's something that professors, teachers, college administrators can do.
-Janice McCabe

Students often say they don't really like group projects, but then, that was a place that many of the friendships that formed in classes that I saw formed.
-Janice McCabe

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Naming the Urgency: Trauma-Informed Practices in Higher Ed

with Jeanie Tietjen

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Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.

Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming.
-Jeanie Tietjen

There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning.
-Jeanie Tietjen

Many students have experienced traumas that are situated in educational settings, bullying experiences that are identity-based, that profoundly shape how they feel about the educational setting as a place.
-Jeanie Tietjen

Learning is very vulnerable. It involves being wrong, failing, failing in front of other people.
-Jeanie Tietjen

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Teaching Solidarity: Critical Race Reading with Malini Johar Schueller

with Malini Johar Schueller

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Malini Johar Schueller unpacks critical race reading and the role of discomfort in the classroom on episode 625 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Racism is a permanent structural feature of American society, and law alone, as now we have it, cannot deal with racism because racism is also part of law.

Racism is a permanent structural feature of American society, and law alone, as now we have it, cannot deal with racism because racism is also part of law.
-Malini Johar Schueller

Critical race reading takes off from that, and it asks, is there a way of reading… that can awaken us to questions of racial privilege and hierarchy, but without us imagining that we have taken over somebody's place?
-Malini Johar Schueller

Critical empathy, where you feel for others and you feel the injustice of others, but you also feel differently, you know, differently.
-Malini Johar Schueller

Some level of discomfort is fine for learning, because if learning doesn't produce any kind of discomfort, you haven't moved outside your zone of what you already know.
-Malini Johar Schueller

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How to Engage Learners in Online Courses with Denise Maduli-Williams

with Denise Maduli-Williams

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Denise Maduli-Williams shares how to engage learners in online courses on episode 624 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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When we design with accessibility in mind, we support everyone, all students.

The very first thing I saw was the online instructor posting this video where she was roller skating in this roller Derby rink and welcoming us online, and that just changed everything for me.
-Denise Maduli-Williams

When we design with accessibility in mind, we support everyone, all students.
-Denise Maduli-Williams

Students who are quieter, whether it's synchronous on Zoom or synchronous in person, they have the opportunity to participate when they're ready and to prepare.
-Denise Maduli-Williams

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Teaching with AI Tools with Rebecca Fordon

with Rebecca Fordon

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Rebecca Fordon unpacks vibe coding and the eight AI teaching tools she built in a single semester on episode 623 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Vibe coding, I think of being able to describe the kind of application or website that you want in just words, a narrative, rather than having to code it, knowing coding language.

Vibe coding, I think of being able to describe the kind of application or website that you want in just words, a narrative, rather than having to code it, knowing coding language.
-Rebecca Fordon

I think the easiest place to start is in ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Claude Code.
-Rebecca Fordon

Many of my students have not used it for anything related to law school. Until they get into my class, and then they see there actually are some good, legitimate uses.
-Rebecca Fordon

If you want to mess with things on your own, you can really just ask AI: How do I do that? Where should I look?
-Rebecca Fordon

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