Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) featured during Seton Hill‘s “Celebration of Scholarship.”

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Journalist flexes in story about Trump Media accountant who has spelled his own name 14 different ways in official documents

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The School of Humanities honors me and my colleagues @mikearnzen and Dan Martino as we complete our service to @setonianonline, @eye.contact.shu and the Pastoral Ministry program. (We’re all still here @setonhilluniversity, looking forward to our next adventures on the hill.)

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Shakespeare-themed Math Puzzles

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AI generated image that relates in no meaningful way to the content of the page on which it appears.

This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?

Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability to churn out the longest written compositions on trivial topics or the shortest compositions on important topics is a shallow skill that has nothing to do with human understanding, much like demonstrating that you can…

Students in “A.I. and the Future of Literacy” are presenting now in Cecilian Hall. @setonhilluniversity

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“Save the date for the 2024 eclipse,” the young teacher told his students back in 1978. Decades later…

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Seriously, clouds? Now?

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Eclipse!

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This happened the last time an eclipse was visible in the area. My students left the room, leaving their laptops and purses behind. So here I am guarding it all.

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New infographic to help our graduating English majors make sense of their capstone project.

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Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking

What is a double-entry research journal?

Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore what you read. That’s a very limited way to engage with a text.

By contrast, double-entry notes are a way of making complex connections between different things that you read.

My students often tell me that when they take good double-entry notes, they get a much better paper when the time comes for them to start actually churning out the paragraphs.

Happy Easter 2024

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