Teaching

Could timing be right for more colleges to replace traditional A-F scale (which many fear has become an A-B scale) with narrative evaluations? Is the report card the enemy of meaningful assessment?

At MLA, professors describe how departments are rethinking curriculums and the tenure-track/adjunct divide. Beyond pedagogy, programs want to protect themselves.

Faculty members describe different approaches to incorporating sustainability into their classes, in some very different disciplines.

Brown U. considers how to improve students' educational experience -- while not taking away their freedom. Among the strategies: e-portfolios and being overt about priorities.

Temple U.'s new curriculum is built around interdisciplinary study and tied together by themes -- including the "Philadelphia Experience."

University of Richmond unveils online database of concise, cross-linked modules that its creators hope could influence the way history is taught.

A college's new curriculum is designed for the much-changed student population it now serves -- largely low-income, minority "urban learners" (for lack, but not of trying, of a better term).

In-depth study at Kingsborough Community College suggests the potential impact of "learning communities" to get more students doing college-level work.