Teaching

Political science professors discuss obligation to explore current controversies in class. But they need to be ready for the student who asks, "Can't we just nuke them all?"

From 2012-13 to 2014-15, undergraduate enrollments fell by 7.6 percent, survey finds.

A significant -- and vocal -- contingent of students increasingly regards free speech as nothing more than a weapon of the rich, the powerful and the privileged, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder.

Do your students suffer from the widespread syndrome of Fear of Meeting One-on-One With My Professor? Arizona State has a cure, pending FDA approval.

The university's note to new students sets off national debate on safe spaces, trigger warnings and more. Presidents of Bowdoin and Yale, with different tone, urge engagement with uncomfortable ideas.

The long-lasting unequal outcomes in higher education -- especially among Latino, black, Native American and underserved Asian-American students -- are evidence that we haven't made needed changes in the classroom, writes Estela Mara Bensimon.

After a year of protests nationwide, one university is trying to be clear about what students should expect.

Graduates of the most selective institutions earn more -- even when controlling for factors that earlier made some doubt such findings -- but maybe not as much more as many think.