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You relax into your  desk chair with a cup of coffee and begin reading the new messages in  your inbox...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/index.php\/publications\/observer\/2011\/may-june-11\/what-can-we-do-about-student-e-mails.html\">new article<\/a> from the Association for Psychological Science presents some interesting data on student e-mails and offers suggestions for maintaining your sanity as they pile up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You likely begin each workday by checking your professional e-mail account. The paper you assigned in your senior seminar course is due today, and you are expecting to receive some e-mails from students regarding this assignment. You relax into your desk chair with a cup of coffee and begin reading the new messages in your <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/end-of-the-year-student-e-mails\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"End-of-the-Year Student E-mails\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[115,304],"class_list":{"0":"post-1269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-teaching","7":"tag-e-mail","8":"tag-students","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-kt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7610,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/suggested-feedback-for-underperforming-students\/","url_meta":{"origin":1269,"position":0},"title":"Suggested Feedback for Underperforming Students","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"August 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols As a followup to my previous post on discussion boards, I thought I would outline some best practices for responding to underperforming students.\u00a0 All too soon, we'll begin a new academic year and it's so important to stay on top of our students' status and provide help\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"discussions\"","block_context":{"text":"discussions","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/tag\/discussions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6039,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-tip-132-keeping-students-on-track\/","url_meta":{"origin":1269,"position":1},"title":"Bb Tip #132: Keeping Students on Track","author":"Janice Florent","date":"March 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Students are more likely to be successful in a course when they attend regularly and keep up with their coursework. 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