Emerging Stronger

Jeffrey Chin is Professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. He is the Secretary of Alpha Kappa Delta, the international honor society for Sociology (https://alphakappadelta .org/). His research interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning began when he served as editor of Teaching Sociology, an official journal of the American Sociological Association (https://www.asanet.org/publications/journals/teaching-sociology), and later in his residence at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/) which earned him the distinction of Carnegie National Scholar. He is the 2012 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Hans O. Mauksch Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology and the 2023 ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. Michele Lee Kozimor, Professor of Sociology at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, has a strong record of meritorious teaching and dedication to the scholarship of teaching and learning, mentoring, and professional development of students and faculty. Kozimor was the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from 2014 to 2017 and the 2018–2019 recipient of the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence at Elizabethtown College. She is the current editor of the journal Teaching Sociology and the 2019 recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Teaching and Learning Hans O. Mauksch Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology.

Author Biographies Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Section 1: Modalities of Teaching and Learning 1. Inclusive Student Engagement Strategies and Students’ Sense of Belonging in Multimodal Learning Environments 2. Emerging Stronger with the HyFlex Teaching Design Section 2: Pedagogical Strategies 3. Understanding, Experiencing, Connecting: The Benefits of Empathy in the Classroom 4. Teaching Toward Hope: Centering Possibility in Courses on Collective Problems 5.Experience Matters: Belonging Interventions, the Student Experience, and Student Success in Class 6. Designing With Grace in Mind: Intentionality in Teaching and Learning Practices 7. Trauma Informed Teaching: Looking Back on a Decade 8. Advancing Social Justice and Anti-Racism Efforts through Inclusive Pedagogy 9. Afrofuturism as an Instructional Method Section 3: Tools for Engagement 10. Supporting the Students We Never "Meet": Strategies for Increasing Retention in the Online Classroom 11. Setting Expectations: Using the Four Tendencies Framework in Higher Education 12. Teaching Strategies for Under Privileged and Under Prepared Students in Higher Education 13. Deviant Interactions or Interaction As Deviance? Using Norm Violation Assignments in the Post-COVID Era 14. Inclusive Podcast Pedagogies: Three Models and Strategies for Creating Engaging and Accessible Assignments 15. Using Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement to Cultivate Vocational Discernment in the College Classroom Index