Free Alternatives to Textbooks: Open Educational Resources

CITAL Guest Blogger: Jon Bull, Assistant Professor of Library Services and Scholarly Communication Services Librarian The next academic year is already approaching with many of us submitting textbook orders and developing curricula we will need for the upcoming semester. However, as many of us already know, those textbooks can be expensive for our students. From […]

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Faculty Learning Community on Mentoring

CITAL Guest Bloggers: Mindy Capaldi, Melissa Desjarlais, Jon-Paul McCool, Nancy Scannell, Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo During the past school year our group of Valpo faculty met to share resources and learn more about best practices in mentoring students.  We met approximately fortnightly during the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters. Two books guided our discussions throughout the […]

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Preventing Faculty Burnout

Have you been reading or hearing about burnout lately? It may be because of this BuzzFeed article on “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation,” which went viral earlier this month: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work This piece touched a nerve with millennials, many of whom claimed that the writer had put a name to their chronic condition. Others responded […]

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