Faculty Focus: What’s Happening at USA?

This month, PETAL had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Nicole Amare (English) in regard to her work on “visual rhetoric” and how that might apply to classroom teaching, particularly in regard to using PowerPoint. It should be noted that Amare has collaborated with Alan Manning at Brigham Young on most of her work in this area.

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Teaching and Learning in the Literature

While we’d never use the term “tired” to describe the professors here at USA (although all of us at one time or another might feel that way!), an article in the March 7, 2008 issue of the Chronicle offered more than a dozen ways to rejuvenate those professors that it describes as “just not teaching as effectively as they did in the past or could do in the future.”

Peter Seldin, a distinguished professor emeritus of Management at Pace University, makes several suggestions for how a college or university might do this

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PETAL Events for March/April 2008