Teaching

Hoping to save money and improve graduation rates, Purdue announces shift from semesters to trimesters.

At MLA, literature professors consider the non-literary values behind first-year reading programs -- and how such programs play out in the classroom.

Enrollment growth in Middle Eastern language programs is slowing. For modern Hebrew, numbers are down.

Central Michigan U. professor tries improving his presentations by taking them outside the classroom, then blowing them to pieces.

When public university leaders kill programs in crucial disciplines on the basis of low enrollments, they distort the responsibilities of professors and administrators, writes Rebecca Gould.

By Rebecca Gould

Dominican U. of California tries a four-course sequence to teach new students how we ended up where we are.

Citing demographic and pedagogic trends, growing number of colleges rename departments "world" or "modern" languages.