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• How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "[M]uch more of the administrative burden is placed on faculty these days, largely because more and more departments are staffed by adjuncts and part-time instructors, meaning that there are fewer and fewer tenured faculty able to serve as administrators (a role that, coincidentally, involves managing that adjunct labour with virtually zero power to introduce improvements to its cruel conditions)" (The Law Governed Universe, ¶6).

  tags: adjuncts administrative work faculty development higher education

• How to Teach Students to Give Peer Feedback | Edutopia

  "To make peer feedback more focused and meaningful, I’ve found it helpful to define quality feedback, provide structured routines, and teach feedback as I would any other core skill" (Gardner, 2019, ¶3).

  tags: feedback how to modeling scaffolding skills writing

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