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Author: Katherine Zubko

Questions About Questions: How Inquiry Changed My First Week of Classes

Questions About Questions: How Inquiry Changed My First Week of Classes

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The first week of classes has flown by in its usual whirlwind – meeting new students, seeing colleagues after some time, and lining up logistics. While my google calendar slowly turns into a block of dark crimson as it becomes encroached by various committee responsibilities amidst class timings and office hours, this crimson tide is offset by the inherent potential of beginning a class once again from the top. This do-over intentionally brings the knowledge of previous experiential iterations forward…

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How Survey Data is Supporting Our Curriculum Design: Five Key Points

How Survey Data is Supporting Our Curriculum Design: Five Key Points

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The editorial team is hard at work this summer in the thick of planning the possible structure and features for the new Readers. This is in preparation for wider faculty discussions about which content will be included within this structure that will be happening this fall. It is an opportune moment to describe how some of the data from the surveys has shaped our editorial conversations and initial decisions. This is an annotated ‘executive summary’ for those who are interested…

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It’s a big open sky: the potential of struggle as a core value in shaping inquiry-based learning

It’s a big open sky: the potential of struggle as a core value in shaping inquiry-based learning

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Whenever I am in Iowa visiting family, one of the most striking features is the big sky full of clouds hovering over fields upon fields of corn and beans. The horizon is so vast, your eyes have to scan panorama-style to take in the whole skyline, instead of being able to take it all in with your head not moving. In those big billowy, leisurely clouds I begin to see shapes that previously were not present but emerge in the…

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Intellectual Hospitality: Inviting Our Students to Engage with Core Materials

Intellectual Hospitality: Inviting Our Students to Engage with Core Materials

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It has been raining for days. Storm Alberto is still sending bands of off and on drizzle towards Asheville which has kept people mostly inside. Needing a change of scenery, I headed out to one of our local coffee shops that serves as a remote office at least once a week. Standing in line, I see the headlines about flooding, the undoing of protections by the Department of Education, the fallout from racist tweets, and a variety of political updates…

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Faculty Entry Points

Faculty Entry Points

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As part of the first meeting of the HUM editorial team that was first formed in summer 2017 to work on the revision process of the three Readers for HUM 124, 214 and 324, I was excited at the potential to ‘catch up’ the Readers with the many curricular initiatives that have been underway in the program since summer 2013. But I was also nervous. I had spent the month before reading articles on curriculum revision processes from scholars in…

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