Also, as I've said before, the faculty at large community colleges could totally do the jobs that faculty at Yale do, and a lot of faculty at ivies could not do our jobs for a single semester.

I've actually come around to Lou Merloni! But this is absolutely the case when Middlebrooks is working.

I just finished @dgooblar.bsky.social's book, One Classroom at a Time, and it's so good I could *cry*. If you're an educator, stop everything else and start reading. Consider sending your provost a copy as a holiday gift. It's just incredible. ✨🥳🥰💜 #HigherEd

Thanks, Liz!

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How can we make college teaching more equitable?
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Good book imo

In today's podcast, @dgooblar.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book, One Classroom at a Time, which provides strategies faculty can use to improve student success and to reduce equity gaps in student outcomes. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/one-classr... @cyberthread.bsky.social

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it."
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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

"Contrary to much popular opinion, college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business." Great essay. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

In Praise of Reading the Syllabus Aloud

I think this is a good time to redirect you to this thing I wrote back in January. The problem isn't reading the syllabus on the first day of class. It's that your syllabus sucks!
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Many thanks for making an exception!

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This is such a good book, and I can't recommend it highly enough. A great blend of theory and practice, practical yet motivating....it would look good on your bookshelf, I'm just sayin'

Back-to-School Reading List — Harvard University Press Practical advice for faculty, students, administrators, and anyone who wants to keep on learning.

HUP Is running a back to school promotion that features the book (among other educational titles) on sale—25% off—until September 30: www.hup.harvard.edu/features/bac...

And check this out, from the mighty @biblioracle.bsky.social!

If you can believe it, I was lucky enough to be read by @susandblum.bsky.social!

And @thetattooedprof.bsky.social!

It's @kfitz.info!

Here’s what some very smart people have said about One Classroom at a Time:

It’s a book for instructors who want to help all of their students succeed and for higher ed decision-makers who want their institutions to follow through on the promises in their brochures and on their websites.

One Classroom at a Time makes the case that the right kind of teaching, enacted throughout our institutions, can make colleges more equitable. It also, of course, lays out exactly what the right kind of teaching is.

It’s still the case that many of us still teach the way our professors teach (which is pretty much how their professors taught.) Our students have changed a ton over the past few decades, but our teaching has not.

I spent much of the past five years reading study after study looking at interventions that would help marginalized students succeed in college courses. We know A LOT. But universities are not putting this knowledge to use.

This despite the fact that a) first-year GPA is by some measures the strongest predictor of whether a student will graduate within six years, and (more to the point) b) we now know SO MUCH about which teaching strategies can help lead to more equitable outcomes within individual classes.

Even though universities have presumably fought for decades against achievement gaps along the axes of race, socioeconomic status, disability, and (in certain fields) gender, they’ve done almost nothing to try to change how professors teach.

Teaching has been wildly underused as a means of combatting inequities in higher education.

I also want you to read it because I think that a more equitable university is possible, that achieving this isn’t as complicated as we think, and that the best path there is through better teaching.