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Academic Success Tip: Create a Syllabus Zine
A chemical engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst redesigned her syllabus as a mini magazine to promote student engagement, share her beliefs and offer greater resources to her students.
West Virginia Students, Faculty Cry Out on Final Day Before Vote on Deep Cuts
At a raucous public comment session Thursday, the WVU Board of Governors heard final pleas to reject university administrators’ proposed cuts. But state politicians and university leaders aren’t expected to heed the protests.
Climate Optimism in an Anxious Classroom
To reach more students, environmental sciences and studies should rework curricula to focus more on solutions, not (just) problems, Stephen Porder writes.
It’s Fun to Study the YMCA
Springfield College students can minor in YMCA studies, one of the few programs in the country that prepares graduates for working at a specific organization.
Academic Success Tip: Use Pop Culture Metaphors to Aid Student Interests
Ohio State professors use superheroes to make human anatomy courses more interesting to students, increasing their motivation and understanding of the material.
Grad Worker Unionization Is Booming, Even Down South
Organizing is surging into private universities, and strikes have increased as well.
All in a Day’s Work: Professor as Student
Joe Hoyle, an accounting professor at the University of Richmond, enrolls in classes—particularly in subjects he knows little about—so that he can be a better teacher himself.
Gen Z and the Humanities
Post-pandemic cohorts of incoming students may have unique reasons for being drawn to the humanities, Randy Laist writes.