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OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS- You've been a professor for a while now, and have taught countless students. Now this new generation came along and you have no idea how to reach your students. Read this guide to figure out how to solve that problem.

OPINION — NMU Survival Guide for professors

Antonio Anderson September 13, 2024

Another year has begun, and the time to teach a new generation of academics has arrived. Yet, even though some professors have been teaching for more time than some students have been alive, there is always...

EVALUATIONS — Professors are supposed to give students time in class to fill out course evaluations at the end of each semester. Which form of evaluation has more value to students: Rate my professor or NMU's course evaluations?

Opinion — Which feedback is more effective for student learning: Rate My Professor or NMU’s course evaluations?

Megan Poe March 11, 2024

It’s almost time to start signing up for fall classes again. Whether you’re a lower classman still jumping the Gen Ed hurdle or you’re onto your fifth year, there are always changes to the faculty...

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Former prof suspended for sexual misconduct

Winter Keefer January 25, 2018

A former professor of psychology retired and signed a separation agreement with the university after being suspended with pay for “violation of the university’s Sexual Misconduct Policy.” In...

Former NMU professor seen as one of U.P.’s top writers

Former NMU professor seen as one of U.P.’s top writers

Trinity Carey November 16, 2017

An Italian soldier escapes from a Prisoner of War camp in Michi- gan’s Upper Peninsula... The premise of “Wolf’s Mouth,” chosen for the 2017 NMU and Marquette County “One Book, One Community,”...

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