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Fighting Censorship … With Trigger Warnings

At National Women’s Studies Association annual gathering, scholar talks using trigger warnings and safe spaces as a way to engage men in feminist discourse.

Fear of Accented English

Students outside the U.S. doubt reliability of instruction in English that is not from native speakers, study finds.

Bringing Their Perspectives to Class

Annual survey finds that students want to and increasingly are doing so, many times related to diversity.

Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments?

Blackboard is getting ready to add a tool to its learning management system that would provide grading guidance based on algorithms, but some faculty members question need.

Cheating Without Intent?

Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe. But could the messaging application trap innocent students because of others’ misdeeds?
Opinion

Ungrading

Formal education has led to a lack of learning in a number of ways, argues Susan D. Blum, and the one change that can make a big difference is getting rid of grades.

Calling Off a Classic

Knox College pulls the plug on a planned production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan over concerns about race.

Ghost From the Past

Professor’s essay about being harassed and raped by her late adviser sparks calls for public acknowledgment of the reasons for his past suspension from Stanford and the renaming of a disciplinary society mentorship award that bore his name.