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Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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November 20, 2018

That average American student graduating with a diploma in-hand and nearly $40,000 of student-loan debt hanging over their head? Yeah…that’s the way to send our students out into the world. While I’ve been concerned about my personal finances in paying off my student loans for my *public*(?) university, what I’ve realized over the years is […]

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This Is Concerning

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October 29, 2018

Regardless of who-knows-how-many studies that have illustrated the benefits of diversity in learning environments, statistics published this past month and discussed in Brendan O’Malley’s article, “Decline of International Graduate Enrollment Quadruples,” show that international enrollment in the United States has declined for the second year in a row. The decline, O’Malley reports, “coincides with the […]

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Critical Pedagogy, JST 3

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October 29, 2018

Hey, guys! Writing on behalf of Jigsaw Table 3. As a group, we worked to define critical pedagogy, then crafted three sections of responses that consider how we apply critical pedagogy in our respective fields. Thank you for reading, & wishing you all a happy start to your week!:) – JST3 (AKA Helen Ajao, Carter […]

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Voice to the Voiceless

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October 21, 2018

For this post, I did some research on my field’s, well, research, which, in comparison to other fields, is not as exhaustive. This isn’t to say there aren’t scholars of creative writing—there are plenty! However, there are, likewise, plenty of critics of creative-writing research and creative-writing pedagogy, in general. I, for example, have never been […]

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How Universities Are Taking Advantage of Social Media

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October 14, 2018

My chosen infographic (found below) is based on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s latest social media adoption study, which shows that, based on the colleges and universities surveyed, 100% of them are using some form of social media, and that usages are rising. I wasn’t surprised to find that Facebook is—at least at the time […]

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