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Betsy Barre

@bbarre.bsky.social
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Assistant Provost and Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Wake Forest University

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Betsy Barre @bbarre.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
enjoyed it, as well! Loved your takes!
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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@drkevinrmcclure.com Thanks for your "Higher Ed Is Adrift" essay last month. It sparked a lot of good conversation on my podcast: intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis....
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Take It or Leave It with Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily Donahoe - Intentional Teaching
Higher education in the United States has been faced with some unique challenges in 2025, largely because of actions taken by the new U.S. presidential administration. In this "Take It or Leave It" ed...
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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today on the podcast, @bbarre.bsky.social @dewsbury.bsky.social and @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social join me for a "Take It or Leave It" panel. We discuss whether higher ed is adrift, institutional neutrality, and the coming(?) AI university. intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
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Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Today on the podcast, another Take It or Leave It panel! Three amazing guests -- @liznorell.bsky.social, @bbarre.bsky.social, and Bryan Dewsbury -- discuss recent hot takes on teaching and learning. It's artificial binaries and deep discussion! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
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Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury - Intentional Teaching
We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teach...
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Betsy Barre @bbarre.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Wow! that is high praise coming from someone so skilled at workshops! It was fun, and really it’s the importance of the question that made the workshop so meaningful. Thanks to you all for caring enough to propose it!
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Betsy Barre @bbarre.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
As a midwesterner, I find all of this hilarious. But I have sympathy for parents!!
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Betsy Barre @bbarre.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If the goal is to improve instruction to decrease “DFWs”, it should be only capturing outcomes related to learning or failure to learn, no?
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Betsy Barre @bbarre.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I tend to think of DFW as trying to track unwanted, bad outcomes. So, in that context, drop doesn’t make sense. Students could drop for many reasons (they want to take another interesting course they heard about; the time doesn’t work for them; they need to take care of mom and drop to part time)
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