Teaching

Boise State halts a diversity course for 1,300 students midsemester over a rumored video of a student being “humiliated” for being white. The university hasn't seen the video, but the course was already under scrutiny from state lawmakers.

Rather than highlighting the folly of using student comments in the personnel process, we should use those comments to improve the classroom experience, argues Sharon Block.

A year to the day after writing about hope, Mays Imad reflects upon how faculty can experience and impart hope to students even now -- when many are, in fact, feeling hope-depleted themselves.

COVID has created a dearth of social experiences, but classes can be a venue for meeting new friends and making learning an enjoyable experience, write Sharon Lauricella and T. Keith Edmunds.

Requiring students to let you inside their homes and private spaces can be culturally insensitive and ultimately racist, sexist, gendered and classist, write Margaret Finders and Joaquin Muñoz.

In his online courses, Zachary Nowak found that such policies helped keep attendance and student engagement in both lecture and discussion sections high.

Christopher Schaberg describes how he learned to slow down and enjoy learning with his students.