Teaching

As our national political dialogue veers toward personal attack and speculation and away from meaningful and civil exchange, we should require our students to read a national newspaper and discuss its content, and then test them on it, writes Susan Siena.

When the alleged perpetrator is a person with whom we feel some sort of affiliation or reverence, we start to make excuses and bend over backward to deny the plausibility of the victim’s experience, writes Jamie L. Small.

Ideological odd couple Robert George and Cornel West issue joint statement -- attracting thousands of signatures -- in wake of shouting down of a speaker at Middlebury.

How St. Olaf decided to scrub the name of a revered late professor recently accused of sexual misconduct from his namesake building.

Communication professor establishes ground rules for political conversations with his students in class. Could they be useful to other academics struggling with how to encourage productive conversations about the president, while not losing control of the syllabus?

Helping students become familiar with the concept of rape culture provides an opportunity for them to recognize their own values and beliefs in action, writes Cat Pausé.

While Calvin College seeks to ensure that the values that guide its teaching and scholarship will be Christian, it still encourages critical thinking, writes Michael K. Le Roy.

Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.