I am a professor who teaches in the humanities at a U.S. university. I am passionate about exploring how to do education. I believe that the key to encouraging education in contemporary virtual frontiers is to create learning communities inside and outside the classroom.
By Zainab Cheema What does it mean to be an inspirational leader? During the memorial of Dr. Fiona Tolhurst held at the Veterans’ Plaza on the campus grounds of FGCU on …
By Zainab Cheema New Year Goals Reflecting over the past year, my New Year’s Resolution for 2022 is to forge a new work-life balance. In the past, the reason that so many …
By Zainab Cheema When grocery shopping over Christmas, I knew that my final purchase wouldn’t be chocolate. It would be the Harvard Business Review special issue How AI is Changing Work, …
By Zainab Cheema As the semester draws to a close, the time is ripe to reflect on the hottest trends in education. And the name of the game is, well, gamification. …
By Zainab Cheema As schools and colleges embark upon exam period, tragedy strikes the national news. In another punctuation in the bloodstained national nightmare of school shootings, a 15 year old …
By Zainab Cheema After students returned to face-to-face classrooms following pandemic lockdowns, teachers noticed the effects of distance learning on their social emotional development. Student behavior referrals are climbing across colleges …
By Zainab Cheema How do we enhance student engagement in post-pandemic teaching? On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, the Chronicle of Higher Education sponsored an online panel featuring some notable heavy hitters …
By Zainab Cheema Let's Talk About Microaggression Let’s talk about microaggressions in Higher Ed. According to Benjamin Reese’s June 2020 article with Inside Higher Ed, there is a significant gap between DEI …
By Zainab Cheema Higher Ed and the Crisis of Diversity Higher Ed is facing a diversity crisis. Due to economic pressures placed by the pandemic, more students of color are deciding to …
By Zainab Cheema Hunger on College Campuses COVID 19 has spotlighted a problem that has existed for quite some time—food and financial insecurities experienced by college students across America. Even with existing …
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