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To help first-time faculty members start the semester strong, three professors share their best practices for creating a syllabus, grading effectively, and designing meaningful assignments.

When Florida State University professor Tom Welsh arrived in Tallahassee in 1991, dance science was uncharted territory. “Mostly, it was technique teachers who were looking for ways to keep their dancers dancing,” he says. “It was just a field people imagined could happen.” He immediately set to work building the university’s dance science program from […]

Jeremy Smith and Yayoi Kambara When Jeremy Smith, now with San Francisco’s ODC/Dance, was a student at Florida State University, modern teacher Lynda Davis put him through his paces. “Her classes were rigorous. One of her methods was to have us do the same phrase for long stretches of time, maybe 15–20 minutes for just one […]