Jennifer Hough

Faculty Development Specialist, communications instructor, feminist, liberal, cat lover

[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

Why is communication cool? It is the way we can take a thought and express it to someone else and have that person understand. It is who we are and what we do. It is how we learn about history and science and religion. Communication is all-consuming. https://t.co/Zz5XmUHxDV

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

It bears repeating: it is unacceptable to respond to peaceful campus demonstrations with violent repression.

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[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

@TheTattooedProf @Ijustlivehere99 So glad you got help and are hopefully recovering! We need you!

[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

@Jessifer Just ordered!

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

My new book about grades and #ungrading will be published next Tuesday.

"Grades and assessment are elephants in almost every room where discussions of education are underway."

[Dr. Angry Grad @GradSkoolStrugs]

I’ve spent the past few YEARS building my #AcademicTwitter community only for it to be ruined by a goblin.

[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

Flunked out of college the first time with a 0.025 GPA

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Flex your lowest academic low score.
To remind us that almost everyone fails at some point in life but it isn't the end of the road. Just a memory in the end.

Mine was 27/100 in Engineering Math 2, just a year after I'd scored 99 in 12th boards. Much needed kick in my butt.

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

The conversation around ChatGPT isn't a particularly new conversation. People have been talking about how technology will transform or dismantle education for decades, even centuries. (a thread)

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

This thread feels evergreen.

Short version: Higher education pedagogy is a field with practices, literature, philosophies, history. Higher Education Pedagogy should be a department with full-time faculty at every institution of higher education.

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

I see lots of jobs at centers for teaching and learning. They’re essential for the health of our universities and colleges. I have yet to see a posting for a professor of #highered pedagogy who’d teach full classes for new/future faculty. It’s a shame and a missed opportunity.

[Rep. Joanna McClinton @RepMcClinton]

THANK YOU @ZerlinaMaxwell for having me as your guest last night! The action by the majority party in the #PAHouse + the #SCOTUS overturning #RoeVWade is the start of them chipping away at our rights. If we don’t get loud NOW, who knows what will be next!

@PaHouseDems @MSNBC

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

In Ohio, a bill was proposed that would require genital exams for all student athletes. That provision is being removed from the bill. Still, it was proposed and discussed, as though it is up for reasonable debate. State sanctioned sexual abuse. This is just one example.

[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

@TheTattooedProf @QueensUniv Congratulations @TheTattooedProf ! Well deserved and happy for you.

[Jennifer Hough @jhough80]

Hi! I'm attending NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence #NISOD2022F2F. Let's start connecting with each other now. - via Whova event app https://t.co/I2uPCKO8cl

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

"Ditching grades entirely will require some rethinking of ingrained systems and beliefs about how we measure and track student performance. But it is worthwhile when we consider the benefits to student learning." https://t.co/d4U804f170

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

From my interview with @becksup for this new @chronicle piece: “I’d say there’s nothing objective about attendance policies at this particular moment. They can’t measure engagement or participation or motivation.” https://t.co/ilxN5aQVOq

[Ken Carano @caranowou]

‘The world is a lesser place today without her.’ Acclaimed author bell hooks dies at 69. https://t.co/afWkc1G6ap via @YahooNews

[Allison Robicelli @robicellis]

I missed my connecting flight so I have to stay overnight at O'Hare and let me tell you guys being practically alone in an airport is fucking AMMAAAZZZIIIIINNNNGGG.

[Jesse Stommel @Jessifer]

If education is content delivery, books surely do that just fine. And they’re pedagogical. They provoke discussion. But education is community, listening, collaboration, care. It’s visceral and sometimes ephemeral. The best teachers challenge us and are responsive in the moment.

[Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab]

Don’t look now but I think it’s a movement 👀

Proud of all y’all. #RealCollege

[Iowa Communication Association @ICA_iowa]

It's conference time! It's conference time! Check out https://t.co/IDmEk3Anrx for details and to register and renew your membership. Don't give us any excuses for not attending conference - it's free!