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Drop in to ask representatives of the Bok Center, Academic Technology for the FAS, and the Harvard Library any of your questions about course and assignment design, library resources, or using Canvas, Zoom, or other technologies in your teaching.

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Join us for the fourth STEM Journal Club meeting of the fall semester, focused on how we can implement two-stage testing to reduce students' anxiety.

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Join us for the third STEM Journal Club meeting of the fall semester, focused on how to balance "content coverage" with the imperative to engage in new, evidence-based teaching practices.

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Join us for the second STEM Journal Club meeting of the fall semester, focused on how a year of remote learning has affected lab instruction.

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Join us for the first STEM Journal Club meeting of the fall semester, focused on how we can learn about students' questions and concerns from the very start of the semester.

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If there is one thing about which virtually all humanities professors, university administrators, and state legislators seem to agree these days, it's that the humanities are in a state of crisis, their enrollments in precipitous decline and their prestige at an ebb. Students, their parents, and policymakers still want things from our colleges; it's just that what they want, according to the current consensus, are economists, engineers, life scientists, and psychologists—not literary critics or visual artists. That, however, is where the agreement ends. When it comes to figuring out why the humanities are in crisis—and what is to be done about it—there seems to be no agreement at all. To some commentators, the humanities have gotten too impractical; our students want something more than obscurantist theories preoccupied with relativizing and "problematizing" everything. To others, however, the humanities are most in danger precisely when they get too applied; instead, they implore students to spend more time in disinterested contemplation. Which is it? Or is it possible that both critiques, and their attendant solutions, are missing the plot?

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Science is an active, hands-on discipline that involves problem solving, technical skill development, and data interpretation. Teaching science, however, is all-too-often a two-dimensional PowerPoint full of facts, equations, and diagrams to memorize. How do we transition our science education to look more like our science in practice?... Read more about POSTPONED | Robin Hopkins, "How can Scientists be Scientists in the Classroom? An Experiment with an Undergraduate Research Experience Course"

Join us for the sixth of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: Epilogue & Next Steps

Join us for the fifth of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: chs. 7–8

Join us for the fourth of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: chs. 5–6

Join us for the third of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: chs. 3–4

Join us for the second of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: Intro & chs. 1–2

Join us for the first of six one-hour faculty reading group meetings focused on Jonathan Zimmerman's recent book The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America (Johns Hopkins, 2020).... Read more about Amateur Hour Reading Group: Organizational Meeting

The Bok Center is proud to support the Harvard Horizons program, which highlights the exciting scholarship of GSAS PhD students across disciplines. On June 10 at 6:00 pm ET the 2020 scholars will give very brief presentations and answer questions about their research and the process of crafting short talks for a general audience.

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