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All in a Day’s Work: Making Math Relevant and Engaging
One faculty member at LaGuardia Community College shares how she’s implemented active learning to address students’ negative perceptions of math.
Students Think Faculty Should Be Mentors. What Does That Look Like?
Over half of students believe their professors are at least somewhat responsible for being a mentor to them. Faculty weigh in on the feasibility of this effort.
Louisiana Governor Calls on LSU to Punish Professor for Alleged Anti-Trump Speech
Republican governor Jeff Landry, claiming to defend free speech, is publicly targeting a specific professor for brief alleged classroom comments on Trump voters.
Why I Invited AI to Dinner
Asking students to converse with chat bots can help them see academic inquiry as a conversation, Michael Millner writes.
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.
Is Generative AI a General Purpose Pedagogical Innovation?
Michael S. Palmer considers generative AI’s potential as a pedagogical innovation.
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.
‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Is Not the Answer
Viewpoint diversity treats the symptoms of dogmatism, but curiosity treats the disease, John McHugh writes.