Rachel Toor

6 days ago | insidehighered.com | Rachel Toor

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | FabrikaCr/iStock/Getty Images Dear Excepted Student,Congratulations on your admission to Prosperity University’s class of 2026. We’re going to get you in and out of here faster and more efficiently than any of those LOSER Colleges that look like total DUMPS. You’re going to love it here.

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Rachel Toor

The calendar says Bloomsday is approaching, but my mind says something else: My identity as a runner is in crisis. For decades, I’ve defined myself by times and trophies, but this year, as I prepare to join my colleagues for the iconic Spokane event, I’m discovering the real challenge isn’t the 12K course – it’s reconciling who I was with who I am.

2 months ago | insidehighered.com | Rachel Toor

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Watson (left) and Bowen have been working together for so long they finish each other’s sentences. Pierce Kuchle/Johns Hopkins University Press Many professors are too overworked, overwhelmed and frankly skeptical about AI to spend time digging into how it can be used. In Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, authors José Antonio Bowen and C.

May 30, 2024 | insidehighered.com | Rachel Toor

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. If it had been a different student, I might have thought she’d printed out and taped the email I sent above her office desk as a joke, a way to make fun of a professor who stressed the importance of clean copy and couldn’t catch her own typos. But it was Grace, who lived up to her name. This winter quarter I came into the classroom unsure in what state I would find students. As everyone knows, it’s been a time.

Apr 9, 2024 | insidehighered.com | Rachel Toor |Jacob Brown |Thomas Byrne |C. K. Gunsalus

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. FatCamera/Istock/Getty Images PlusYears ago, my good friend Julius Scott, a great scholar, even better teacher, the smartest person I’ve ever known, an inspiration to those who believe that good work will eventually be rewarded, and a man I loved with all my heart, told me a story he’d been told by Lawrence Goodwyn, one of his teaching mentors. I hope I get this right, though sadly, I can’t confirm it with either of them.