• The power of play in resilient teaching

    By Erica Woekel, College of Health and OSU Extension Take a moment to think back on your childhood and what your favorite game or activity was to play. Some of my favorites were playing with dolls, cars, dressing up, cards and board games, playing ‘school’, and being outside creating inventive stories for hours.  Playing is…


  • Call for participation: Winter ’25 Teaching and AI Faculty Learning Community

    Invitation The goal isn’t to outsmart AI or to pretend it doesn’t exist, but to harness its potential to enhance education while mitigating the downside. The question now is not whether AI will change education, but how we will shape that change to create a more effective, equitable, and engaging learning environment for all.” ––Ethan Mollick,…


  • Resiliency in a profession filled with fur, feathers and frustrations

    By Lilian Wong, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine A 2019 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study showed that veterinarians are between two to four times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. Given the mental health epidemic in my profession, resiliency is something my students, colleagues, and I think about on a…