Kevin Gannon
Kevin Gannon is director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and a professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.). He is @TheTattooedProf on Twitter, and you can reach him by email at gannonk@queens.edu.
Stories by this Author
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AdviceWhy Calls for a ‘Return to Rigor’ Are Wrong
What’s the point of pursuing “solutions” that exacerbate student disengagement, the very problem they are supposed to solve? -
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Let’s Disrupt the Calls for ‘Disruptive Innovation’
Too often the demand for novel solutions to higher education’s woes disregards existing work and those doing it. -
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Post-Covid, the Personal Is the Professional
Having experienced a more humane approach to work, why go back to the way things were before? -
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Faculty Evaluation After the Pandemic
In our post-Covid personnel landscape, one-size-fits-all tenure and promotion policies are destined to fall short. -
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Our HyFlex Experiment: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t
Armed with a can-do spirit, faculty members leaped into hybrid teaching this fall. The results have been decidedly mixed. -
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Lucky to Be Hired Before the Hiring Freezes. Unlucky to Be Starting in a Pandemic.
How new faculty hires can prepare for an uncertain first semester on the job, and how department chairs can help. -
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How to Make Your Online Pivot Less Brutal
It’s not a matter of if, but rather when, you will need to rethink things like grading, due dates, assignments, and your definition of “rigor.” -
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Public Writing and the Junior Scholar
How should we “count” public writing and service for tenure and promotion? -
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Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting
Adapting a course for a digital environment forces you to ask yourself why you’re doing a particular pedagogical thing — and then to rethink it. -
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How to Fix the Dreaded Survey Course
A good intro course is, most emphatically, not a content-driven information transfer. It’s more like a well-curated collection.
