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Articles by Pamela Scully
The Case for ‘Slow Teaching’
Ask students about the campus learning-management system and you are bound to get an earful: They feel bombarded by LMS messages about due dates, meetings, and grades. Instead of reading the syllabus, they rely on alerts to tell them what’s due and when, which probably explains why so much college work gets done just before class. I started thinking about how the LMS contributes to undergraduate stress last fall, after I noticed heightened student anxiety.
Advice | The Case for ‘Slow Teaching’
Millions of federal student loan borrowers will see their interest rates jump this week as the Trump administration moves forward to end benefits for borrowers enrolled in the SAVE plan. For more than a year, nearly eight million borrowers who had enrolled in the SAVE plan have remained in a forced …
‘One Emory’ feels futile now
As a university, we are not living up to our claims of “One Emory” and being a university that fosters “courageous inquiry.” The “One Emory” principle implies that we’re all in this together, that all of our voices need to be considered and consulted on key issues. It implies shared governance.
Open Letter to Emory Stop Cop City and President Gregory Fenves
We attended the demonstration that Emory University President Gregory Fenves criticized as “antisemitic” in his Oct. 25 message to the Emory community. We come away from both the demonstration and President Fenves’ letter with profound disappointment, even sorrow. We found the demonstration very problematic, even counter-productive, and it was no way to build a coalition to stop Cop City.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title “In Ken Saro-Wiwa, Doron and Falola provide a masterful narrative of the struggles of Nigeria’s famous environmental and ethnic minority rights campaigner and writer.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
“This brilliant, insightful, and accessible work by a highly gifted historian superbly maps a continent-wide articulation of women’s power, influence, and authority in Africa.
This is why Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was just awarded the $5 million Ibrahim prize
This week, Liberia’s former president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was awarded the $5 million Ibrahim prize for African Leadership. Sirleaf is probably best known for receiving the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, along with her Liberian compatriot Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, for their struggle for women’s full participation in peace building. In 2005, Sirleaf became Africa’s first elected woman president, and recently stepped down after two terms as Liberia’s head of state.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014–15.
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