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Episode Summary Hiring teaching faculty lacks strong community norms, creating a heavy burden on candidates and costs for departments. In this episode, we talk with Michael Hilton from Carnegie Mellon University about a Computing Research Association (CRA) memo he co-authored called Best Practices for Hiring Teaching Faculty in Research Computing Departments. We discuss the prac...

Episode Summary Students are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in their learning. But what are the implications of this? In this episode, we are joined by Irene Ho, PhD student at UC San Diego in the Design lab, to talk about her recent research, which draws on interviews with students across multiple universities. We discuss GenAI’s impact on h...

Episode Summary All students seek help, but what is academic help-seeking actually? In this episode, we are joined by Shao-Heng Ko, Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and our host’s advisee, to talk about all things student help-seeking. Shao-Heng explains help-seeking as a metacognitive process and introduces a framework for understanding the many ways students look for h...

Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), we talk to Professor Emeritus William G. Griswold about his teaching practice Meet the Professor, where he has short, small-group meetings with every student in his 200+ student course. Bill originally shared this practice as a SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024 experience report. In our conversation, we discussed how the practi...