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Creating Safe Spaces for Dialogue in Immigration Law

By Sharaban T. Zaman, Legal Studies Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 The Teaching Problem: While teaching “Immigration and Citizenship” in the Legal Studies undergraduate program at the law school, I encountered a significant instructional challenge. Many students had personal or family experiences with immigration issues, making the subject…

Teaching Outside the Textbook

By Gregory Arena, Integrative Biology Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2024 Amidst a gauntlet of Berkeley bureaucracy and impersonal undergraduate prerequisite courses, students often tell me they feel that they must fend for themselves. This was my experience as an undergrad at Berkeley. In my first two years, I never once…