• Resilience as Resistance: Defending Higher Education by Finding Ways to Remain

    By Kristen D. Herring, Ph.D., School of Communication As early career faculty, many academics build armor. We shield ourselves from attacks on our authority with memorized citations, ambitious research agendas, and cleverly thrifted blazers. The word resilience takes on an unnerving connotation among millennial audiences. We are a generation whose entire adult lives have been…


  • Join the Quality Teaching Talk on Nov. 14: The Power of Mentorship

    CTL invites speakers to share pedagogical practices and strategies that can help bring the Quality Teaching (QT) framework to life at OSU. Each QT Talk focuses on a principle from the QT framework while imparting tangible, practical ways to bring it to life. QT Talks take place on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. during weeks 3,…


  • RAP ON: Take Note of This: Using Outlines and Illustrations During Lecture Note Taking

    About the author: Regan A. R. Gurung, Ph.D. is Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University and Professor of Psychological Science. This is part of our series of Research Advancing Pedagogy (RAP) blogs, designed to share the latest pedagogical research from across the disciplines in a pragmatic…