Author Archives: Jonathan Nyquist

On August 17th, GenEd held its annual faculty assembly. The theme was “Teaching Writing Across the GenEd Curriculum.” Improving student’s oral and written communication is one of GenEd’s program-wide goals [link].  Vigilance is required because I fear that the pandemic-driven … Continue reading →

Monitoring Infiltration in a Stormwater Basin Covid 19 dominates all aspects of our lives right now, but field work must go on!  Recently Dr. Laura Toran,  PhD candidate Gina Pope, and I helped masters student Kyle Collins (above) install a … Continue reading →

In my November 2019 blog post, I like to use Tableau to develop data dashboards GenEd. There is a rapidly growing Tableau community in Temple, which now has its own user group. To learn more, visit the Temple Tableau getting … Continue reading →

There is no question that a whole generation of sociology and education students will write theses on higher education during of the Covid 19 Pandemic. I believe studies will show that although the forced transition from classroom to online instruction … Continue reading →

At the time of this post (3/12/2020) not a single Temple University student, staff or faculty member has tested positive for the coronavirus.  Yet next Monday Temple University switches to online-only instruction in and effort to encourage “social distancing.”  No … Continue reading →

This spring I signed up for a CAT book group to discuss “Teaching What You Don’t Know” by Therese Huston. The basic premise of the book is that faculty often find themselves teaching a course outside their subject expertise. Maybe … Continue reading →

One my goals for GenEd is to create online dashboards that provide easy access to data on enrollment trends, grading patterns, waitlists, section sizes and databased information to department chairs, course coordinators, and dean’s office personnel. My weapon of choice … Continue reading →

This October GenEd held its first ever course fair in the main atrium of the newly completed Charles library. Faculty and student helpers from across the university shared information with incoming students about exciting GenEd offerings in their departments, including … Continue reading →

Roughly five years ago, to permit Temple to offer fully online undergraduate degrees, online GenEd classes were created for each of the GenEd areas. Fast forward to today and nearly 10% of the credit hours taught in GenEd are online. … Continue reading →

For the annual GenEd Faculty Assembly this year, the GenEd office partnered with the Career Center to gather faculty, former students and employers together to discuss the connections between the skills student develop in their GenEd classes and the needs … Continue reading →