Submitted by the Learning Assessment Committee Our General Education Learning Outcomes state that students should be able to “Apply a variety of credible sources to support a given topic” at the time they graduate from Harper. Last spring, the Learning Assessment...

This course deals with language oppression, systematic oppression, and the effect of the socio-political context on language; therefore, creating a safe space is an important aspect to this course. To this end, we are going to identify tools of language oppression...

Join Dr. Joseph Flynn, Associate Director of the Center for Black Studies and Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at NIU, for a discussion-based seminar to explore how we can build awareness and strategies for social change as an institution and as a...

Glenn Reich, former Director of User Services at Harper College, believed in a humanistic, collaborative approach to instructional technology. He encouraged faculty and staff to invest their energy in the technology that he knew would dramatically affect our world and...

Submitted by Brett Fulkerson-Smith, Philosophy In 2017-2018, the Learning Assessment Committee and the General Education-Critical Thinking Work Group assessed the general education outcome “use evidence to develop arguments, make decisions, and evaluate outcomes.” The...

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to argument mapping, the visual representation of reasoning and evidence in box-and-line diagrams. A growing body of research shows that argument mapping significantly improves critical thinking skills. In fact,...