Mary J.S. Roth, Ph.D., P.E.

Like many institutions, Lafayette College takes a “writing across the curriculum” approach to help students develop their writing skills. As part of the writing requirement, all students are required to…

This spring semester I am teaching a section of my program’s capstone project course and I’ve been thinking about how best to structure the course. ABET (the organization that accredits…

There’s been a lot written on students becoming disengaged and even dropping out as a result of the stresses they have experienced during the pandemic. The stresses on students have…

I recently finished reading Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal – it is an excellent book and I recommend it for anyone facing the potentially complicated situations that can occur as…

I spent last week as a mentor and facilitator for Project Kaleidoscope’s STEM Leadership Institute.  Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is “AAC&U’s STEM higher education reform center dedicated to empowering STEM faculty,…

Over the last few years, I find that my relationship with time — specifically, my ability to find the time to do what I need to get done — has…

This past fall was my first time teaching in over nine years and I was assigned courses I had never taught before – it felt like I was once again…

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”  – John Dewey (Based on research reported in a working paper by Di Stefano, G., Gino, F., Pisano,…

(From a 200 words or less mentoring statement I was asked to provide for AAC&U’s 2015 PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for STEM Faculty) I value both sides of mentoring—learning from…

I like taking notes on my iPad—I have had an iPad for a couple of years now and I find that by using a stylus, I can take handwritten notes…