This is the time of the year when faculty, university staff, and student organizations are thinking about welcoming first-year students. Zach Baldwin discusses the unique challenge of this year when many second-year students, both undergraduate and graduate, will be on campus for the first time after a year of distance learning. He discusses some of the unique needs and challenges these students face and ways we can welcome them. ____________________ Second-year students, undergraduate and graduate, face a … [Read more...] about Welcoming Second-Year Students
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Approaching a New Semester
Editor's note: A powerful piece received a few weeks ago, I encourage you to join the author and myself in prayer for the new term. . . . I have to admit a certain fear as the new semester approaches. Not so much about the teaching itself. It's a lot of work, but I've done it before. What incites fear in me is the realization that I — with all my insecurities, faults and failures —am again being given sixty-some students for four hours a week for fifteen weeks. This is more time than they will spend with their … [Read more...] about Approaching a New Semester