How Not to Write a Syllabus (and What to Do Instead)
The syllabus isn’t your annual report. It’s not a compliance memo. And it’s definitely not a legal deposition written in passive voice. It’s a guide for your students (actual human beings), many of whom are trying to make sense of a new class, a new semester, and, in some cases, a whole new life direction.
Humanizing Academic Advising: The Ted Lasso Effect
Let’s be honest: academic advising can sometimes feel more like a rushed transaction than a meaningful conversation. Advisors are juggling impossibly high student-to-advisor ratios, training is all over the place, and too often, compliance takes precedence over actual student development. What should be a formative and inspiring experience for students sometimes ends up as nothing more than a logistical checkpoint.