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Teaching Tip: Creating Effective Video Lectures
More students are completing classes online. Faculty members can improve teaching and learning for online education by designing engaging, accessible video content.
‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Is Not the Answer
Viewpoint diversity treats the symptoms of dogmatism, but curiosity treats the disease, John McHugh writes.
Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including English, history and sociology.
Oregon State University Graduate Student Workers Strike
Many Faculty Say Academic Freedom Is Deteriorating. They’re Self-Censoring.
In an Course Strat/Hanover Research survey conducted shortly before the election, over 90 percent of faculty strongly or somewhat agreed that academic freedom is under threat.
From One Woman to Another
Heather Setka writes that female colleagues can be one another’s best supports in teaching in male-dominated classrooms.
Navigating Difficult Classroom Conversations
Tricia Shalka offers strategies for preparing for, and leading, classroom discussions in moments of crisis and discomfort.
Empowering Faculty to Engage in Basic Needs Support for Students
A new online curriculum from Believe in Students helps illustrate the challenges students face with basic needs insecurity and the role professors can play in addressing these concerns.