Lee Skallerup Bessette
Lee Skallerup Bessette is assistant director for digital learning at Georgetown University and an affiliated faculty member in the master’s program in learning, design, and technology. She is on Twitter @readywriting.
Stories by this Author
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AdviceYou Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any?
For academics, staff members, and students seeking counseling services on or near their campus, the result is often a waiting list. -
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Careers on the Staff Track: How to Start a Job Transition
A new series will explore the professional paths and challenges of staff members in higher education. -
Advice
Student Success This Fall Will Depend on Faculty-Staff Cooperation
Seven ways to foster greater collaboration between the academic and student-support divisions of your campus. -
Advice
Stop Ignoring Microaggressions Against Your Staff
Three ways that professors and administrators, intentionally or not, put staff “in their place.” -
Advice
Same Covid Stress, Different Benefits
The disparity in how institutions have treated staff versus faculty members during the pandemic reflects a long-term inequity in employee benefits. -
Advice
Where Are the Career Paths for Staff on Campus?
Unlike professors and administrators, staff members have few-to-no options for moving up. -
Advice
The Staff Are Not OK
It’s time higher education started paying attention to the health and well-being of the staff members whose work has pulled campuses through the Covid-19 crisis. -
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Staff Get Little to No Say in Campus Governance. That Must Change.
As professors and administrators debate how to reimagine academe after Covid-19, that reform must include a greater voice for staff members. -
Advice
Can You Teach a ‘Transformative’ Humanities Course Online?
It’s time to approach online teaching, not from a deficit mentality, but from an openness to its potential. -
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5 Myths About Remote Teaching in the Covid-19 Crisis
Why academics must resist the urge to use the pandemic to judge the value of online teaching.
