Teaching

 

An education student wrote a paper last semester advocating corporal punishment; now Le Moyne College won't let him enroll.

With $1 million each, professors supported by unusually lucrative grants are changing undergraduate education at research universities.

Financial difficulties force the American Association for Higher Education -- a key voice on assessment and faculty issues -- to disband.

A scholar analyzes the state of instruction in American history survey courses – and finds them heavily reliant on textbooks.

Four years after unveiling a plan to share course materials with the world, MIT assesses its impact.

A student group upset over high prices is now focusing on individual offerings -- starting with an intro physics book.

Community college administrators share ideas about how to better train and motivate part-time professors.

Claremont Graduate U. and Vanderbilt hope new types of courses will give their doctoral students a broader perspective.

Presidents say longstanding classroom practices may need to change if colleges are to succeed in educating more minority students.