Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudents love flashcards. But if they have a bunch of index cards in front of them and make flashcards by just copying text from the text or the web and then quickly look at the cards when they study, flashcards will be of little help. Feel free to share this brief video with them – […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesContributing Author: Mark Persellin When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was enacted, the Trump administration (and others) asserted that the legislation would not add to the Federal deficit. The U.S. Department of Treasury argued that the TCJA would be, at worst, revenue neutral. The Treasury posited that the TCJA would stimulate economic growth and that the resulting tax revenue increases would more than offset the bill’s tax […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesContributing Author: James C Young In Notice 2014–21 (2014–16 I.R.B. 938), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided some basic answers to questions taxpayers were asking about virtual currency (also called cryptocurrency) like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Although virtual currency operates like “real” currency in some environments (e.g., the coin and paper money of the United States), it does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction. In its guidance, the IRS […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesContributing Author: William A Raabe The 2018 Budget Act (signed into law on February 9, 2018) included an interesting exception to the long-established rule that a private foundation cannot own an operating for-profit business. SWFT Volume 2 Chapter 15 Exhibit 15.4 points out that an excise tax applies when a private foundation owns more than 20% of the shares of an unrelated […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesStart with the students rather than the discipline: this is the 3rd principle from Ken Bain’s book, “What the Best College Teachers Do” (pp. 110-112): …the best teachers start with something that, as [Harvard political theories Michael] Sandel put it, “students care about, know, or think they know… Such an approach often means asking students to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesClass Ice Breakers Polar bears break the ice to survive. Teachers break the ice to thrive. Join this interactive, high-energy webinar and explore ways to use icebreakers and topic starters to socialize, stimulate, motivate, and prime your students for success. Participants will leave with practical strategies they can immediately implement to move students from passive […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany faculty like to use photos in their presentations, but finding images that are open to the public is difficult and of course we want to model to our students the ethical use of web images. Here are some suggestions. 1. Google Search Many faculty get their images from a Google search and you can […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. As if COVID-19 weren’t ugly enough, we are now seeing another offshoot of the pandemic’s effect: xenophobia. Before so many campuses shut down, students and instructors were understandably edgy about every […]
