Teaching

As an engineering professor, Joseph Holtgreive is using an art form designed to focus on the needs of others to help his students turn obstacles into opportunities.

Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically "entitled" students.

Professors debate the role -- or absence -- of the historian in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's new Vietnam documentary, concurring that a lack of critical perspective makes the film more milquetoast than masterpiece.

Historians urge departments to give their graduate students the confidence, skills and support to succeed in whatever career paths they choose. That means going out of their way to avoid implying that nonfaculty jobs are somehow “less than.”

Real-life experiences may confer some benefits, but what we offer students in our classrooms is significantly more valuable, argues John Kijinski.

Bob Blaisdell never condemned a student for reading a book, regardless of its subject matter or author. Until one day.

If we’re in higher education to educate, Jillian Joyce asks, what keeps college teachers from learning more about teaching?

Students may resist it, but rereading a literary text offers many benefits, argues Rachel Wagner.