The Daily Bulletin

Are you interested in discussing academic standards? Are you worried about declining academic standards? Are you worried about students who seem increasingly ill-prepared for college work? Please join us for the second part of this workshop on academic rigor on Wednesday, March 1, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in Butler Library 181B.

This workshop will present a model of academic rigor that promotes actively engaging students in meaningful content with higher-order thinking at the appropriate level of expectation for a given context (Draeger et al. 2013). Through a series of interactive exercises, we will explore how to improve student engagement, how to uncover a course’s most meaningful elements, how to determine the forms of higher-order thinking most appropriate for a course, and how to modulate expectations for different student groups (e.g., majors, non-majors, tourists). Come and explore ways of promoting academic rigor and addressing the needs of underprepared students. Participation in the first part of the workshop is not required.

Presented by John Draeger, associate professor of philosophy, director of SoTL, and interim director of faculty development; and Pixita del Prado Hill, professor of elementary education and reading.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

Draeger, John, Pixita del Prado Hill, Lisa Hunter, Ronnie Mahler. 2013. “The Anatomy of Academic Rigor: The Story of One Institutional Journey.” Innovative Higher Education 38 (4): 267–279.