Teaching

Princeton professor who was criticized for using the word in a class on hate speech cancels the course.

Two professors on different campuses used the N-word last week. One was suspended and one was backed by his institution, demonstrating academe's continually fraught relationship with the term.

New data suggest that STEM majors are not the only route to success.

Skills boot camps continue to grow and diversify despite wave of consolidation, while traditional higher education increasingly absorbs aspects of the short-term training model.

Regardless of one’s beliefs on what prisons are or should be, professors who desire to teach inside them need to know certain things, advises Damian Zurro.

At national gathering of educators, many see erosion of opportunity -- even as data show continuing impact of earning a college degree.

We should help students make sense of not only the subject matter of our particular class but also how all their curricular and co-curricular activities fit together, writes Laura L. Behling.

Literary scholars should follow the example of historians and create digital work to reach people colleges and universities have ignored, Will Fenton writes.