Political Meme Scavenger Hunt Protest Poster showing Grumpy Cat holding an Ethernet cable, with the message, “#NSA Killed My Internet. Now I have to build a GNU one.” Sometimes a LOLcat is just a humorous comment on life. Other times, ... 
Skyfactor Benchworks and Roompact’s New Strategic Collaboration to Enhance Residence Life Practice and the Student Experience Roompact and Skyfactor Benchworks are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration to explore how combining Benchworks' nationally-validated assessment, analytics and benchmarking with Roompact’s expertise in r... 
Macmillan Learning Announces Bedford New Scholars Advisory Board for 2019 Bedford/St. Martin’s, an imprint of Macmillan Learning, today announced the 10 new graduate students chosen to become part of the 2019 Bedford New Scholarsprogram, an advisory board of graduate students for... 
Benchworks Launches Assessment and Impact Award for Residence Life, Announces Winners Skyfactor Benchworks announced the winners of its first, annual Assessment and Impact Awards. The award was created to highlight colleges that are successfully using data to improve their housing programs, helping to ... 2019 Bedford New Scholars Advisory Board: Biographies Shannon Butts (recommended by Creed Greer) is pursuing her PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at The University of Florida, graduating August 2019. Shannon teaches courses on digi... 
More Forgotten History: The UpStairs Lounge arson from 1973 Before the horrific events of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the UpStairs Lounge arson attack was one of the deadliest assaults on the LGBQT community-- except hardly anyone heard about it. In honor of #PrideMonth, rea... 
Tech Tuesday: Get Ready for Fall with ACES Updates The ACES that you know and love got some amazing updates last week to make it more user friendly and more useful for both your course and your institution. Now available in the LaunchPads for Connections, 1st and 2nd ... 
“Implicit Egotism”: Astonishing Ways We Gravitate Toward Places, People, and Professions We Associate With Ourselves You surely know why you chose your town, your partner, and your vocation—all for good reasons, no doubt. But might other unknown reasons—operating below the level of your conscious awareness–... 
Student Research: Works Cited Drafts Teaching our students to properly cite sources is an essential component of college-level history courses. In a previous blog I mentioned that last summer I started requiring a rough-draft of the Works Cited page in t... 
Write This, Not That: A Class Activity Writing a simple email message can turn me into an overthinking scaredy-cat. Am I using the right phrase? Do I sound like I’m apologizing too much? Am I oversharing? Am I being too vague? Ugh. I end up evaluatin... Journaling with a Purpose Today's featured guest blogger is Shane Bradley, Administrative Dean, Writing Program Director, and Assistant Professor of English at Erskine College. The following dictum still bothers me... 
10,000 steps: A research methods example After covering experiments and correlations in Intro Psych or as a research methods booster in the Stress & Health chapter, ask your students if they have heard that you should walk 10,000 steps a day. Do they kno... 
Price Controls Clicker Questions In the wake of $4/gallon gas prices last year, some people were calling on the government to restrict gasoline prices. Do you believe the government should have put a cap on gasoline prices? A) Yes B) No ... 
Externalities Clicker Questions In which of the following situations would a positive externality most likely be involved? A) Ellen is sitting at home one day when she gets a telephone call, informing her that she has won $10,000 in a contes... Demand and Supply Clicker Questions Which of the following demonstrates the law of demand? A) Relative to last month, Jon buys more pretzels at $1.50 per pretzel since he got a raise at work this month. B) Melissa buys fewer muffins at $0.75 pe... Using Google Forms to Create Fast Class Activities Google Forms make an easy task of collecting information from students for class discussion and writing activities. Just gather student responses your Google Form, and use the collected responses as the basis of class... The Sense of an Ending: Popular Teleology and Game of Thrones With television's arguably most prominent dramatic series ending amidst the ashes of King's Landing and the outrage of many of its most loyal fans (including a remarkable Change.Org petition demanding an entire Season... 
