Learning and Teaching

How to Teach in an Age of Distraction (October 2, 2015) 5 Ways to Ease Students Off the Lecture and Into Active Learning (July 18, 2023) How do you close out your course? (December 12, 2024) Teaching: Recapturing the fun of teaching (February 20, 2025)

How a Top Trump Adviser Might Influence the President-Elect’s Views on Higher Ed (November 18, 2024) In Sweeping Action, Idaho’s Education Board Bans ‘DEI Ideology’ on College Campuses (December 18, 2024) Anti-DEI Law Is Discriminatory, Violation of Free Speech, NAACP Alleges in Federal Court (January 14, 2025) A University System Ends Diversity-Related Gen-Ed Requirements, Citing Trump Order (February 7, 2025) Long before Trump took office, some colleges banned DEI even though it wasn’t required. (February 12, 2025) The University of Michigan has widely been seen as a model for its DEI efforts. A backlash could result in cuts. (February 14, 2025) In Sweeping Letter, Ed. Dept. Says SCOTUS Ruling Applies to All Race-Conscious Programs (February 16, 2025) Ed. Dept.’s Broad DEI Warning Puts College Leaders in ‘Enormously Complicated Situation’ (February 18, 2025) Colleges Are Pre-emptively Ending DEI Programs (February 18, 2025) What College Leaders Are Saying About Trump’s Directive on R...

The Best (and Worst) Ways to Respond to Student Anxiety (May 5, 2019)

Right-wing attacks on academic freedom have real repercussions. (December 14, 2021) A Texas University Tells Professors Their Teaching and Research Will be Under ‘Intense Scrutiny’ (November 13, 2024) Is Texas where academic freedom will finally die? (November 18, 2024) Can Academic Freedom Survive the AAUP? (February 18, 2025)

When cheating feels like it’s everywhere, what can you do? (November 7, 2024) Strategies to reduce cheating (November 21, 2024) When AI Does the Reading for Students (December 12, 2024) Scholars Are Supposed to Say When They Use AI. Do They? (December 18, 2024) With ChatGPT and other AI tools, cheating in college feels easier than ever — and students are telling professors that it’s no big deal. (January 21, 2025)

Representation of Low-Income Students at Highly Selective Colleges Didn’t Budge Over 100 Years (November 18, 2024)

Millions of students have to use courseware. Often, the product replaces the professor. (July 18, 2023) Is It Time to Regulate AI Use on Campus? (November 11, 2024) Meet Professor Robot (November 19, 2024) Teens Are Doing AI Research Now. Is That a Good Thing? (January 14, 2025) Can the Humanities Survive AI? (January 23, 2025) How to encourage students to write without AI (February 13, 2025) Adopt or Resist? Beyond the AI Culture Wars (February 20, 2025)

Cheating Has Become Normal (November 4, 2024) How Professors Make Ends Meet (November 6, 2024) Can Professors Afford the American Dream? (November 6, 2024) The College-Degree Divide Is Becoming a Chasm (November 6, 2024) State Support for Public Colleges, 2002-22 (November 8, 2024) The Review: Therapeutic infantilization, election edition (November 11, 2024) What Trump 2.0 means for international education (November 13, 2024)