Gina Sprint

What advice you would give new faculty starting out at your institution? Or phrased another way, what do you wish you would have known when you were first starting out? I was recently asked to serve on a panel of “established faculty” at my university’s new faculty orientation. Having just attended orientation only two years prior, I was surprised to be considered an established faculty. Regardless, I was happy to serve on the panel. I’ve learned a lot in the…

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Have you heard of flipped classrooms? You probably have, especially if you’ve attended a teaching workshop recently. In a flipped class, the “lecture” and “homework” are effectively swapped; students learn new concepts as homework that is due before the class period in which students apply the concepts in an active learning environment. If you teach in the liberal arts then you are probably like, “pssshh, we’ve been flipping classes FOR YEARS” … and it’s true. In an English class, for…

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My dad still clips articles out of the newspaper, yes the actual physical newspaper! If he finds something he thinks is relevant to me in any way, he clips it and saves it until the next time he sees me. If it is going to be a while before he sees me, he will take a picture of the clipping with his smartphone and send it to me. Here is a clipping he gave to me about 7 or 8…

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