The Butterfly Affect

Barrios, Barclay

doi:10.1215/15314200-10081959

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Commentary| January 01 2023

The Butterfly Affect

Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios is professor of English and the associate dean of undergraduate studies for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. His work focuses on queer theory, writing program administration, pedagogy, and computers and composition. He is the author of the freshman composition textbooks Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers (2010), now in its fifth edition, and Intelligence (2021).

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Pedagogy (2023) 23 (1): 11–19.

https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-10081959

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Higher education faces dramatic transformations in demographics, politics, culture, labor, and technology—all of which are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chaos theory offers perspectives for weathering these changes, though ultimately, as the future remains unpredictable, the best instructors can offer is doing their best in their jobs.

higher education, enrollment cliff, Gen Z, pandemic, chaos theory

2023

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