Two field studies suggest that giving college students greater autonomy can improve motivation and learning.

This week the Chronicle published a fascinating essay about academic ghosting. I am quoted in it. The author and I spoke at great length and had a great conversation.  What I find interesting, however...

At some time in everyone’s academic lives, there will be cause for collaboration angst. It may all start golden: big ideas, excitement about working with new colleagues, the potential for fan…

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University preparation pathways are an important equity mechanism for opening access to higher education to under-represented students. A vital focus of pathways education is on the academic litera...

Class participation is an important indicator of student engagement. As research on assessing class participation is relatively scarce, questions of how to achieve reliability in assessing class pa...

Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission.For The Real World of

The 14th century gave rise to the idea of the Renaissance man: an individual who is gifted in a broad range of areas from the arts to the sciences. Leonardo Da Vinci, for example, is famous for his ar...

Where to Start: A Five-Stage Game Plan for Sections In general, being prepared for class has less to do with how much or how little time you spend preparing, and more to do with how well and how wisel...

Hessler et al. question the validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching after demonstrating that provision of chocolate cookies had a significant effect on course evaluation.

Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

Updated: October 2023 By the time students enter college, they’ve invested more than 16,000 hours in academic learning. One might expect them to be adept learners, poised for success. However, instead...

While the role of department chairs has evolved over the past few decades, the thinking on their professional development has generally not kept pace. Here, Susan Gano-Phillips calls attention to some...

Tenure—the right to continuous employment, which may be terminated only for adequate cause or under conditions of bona fide financial exigency or of a bona fide department or program discontinuance an...

The book comprehensively examines financial exigency, including its history and current status in higher education. It includes a case history about how exigency can help restore the financial int...

Chemistry faculty cite the importance of humanities in a scientist’s undergraduate education

Citing Media in Instructional Content Citation practices in your course should adhere to the same strict standards as in your scholarship. Cite whenever you reference and/or use another scholar’s wor...

Last year I received a grant to support bringing guest scholars to my class. The idea was to find students with some expertise relevant to my courses and invite them to present in class, thereby givin...

We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history

A model that instils in students a commitment to ‘showing up’ from day one includes practical strategies for improving attendance and fostering long-term engagement

Voluntary attendance. Online classes. Student numbers swelling. Australian campuses look very different today – and many academics don’t like it

By Ben Goldstein

Addressing students’ increasing demand for flexibility in how they complete college courses, this book prepares practitioners to create equivalent learning

Report reveals grave plight of contingent college faculty

The present meta-analysis tested the effects of extended self-regulated learning training programs on academic performance, self-regulated learning st…

Faculty say fellowships, career courses and other practical changes could help students realize the valuable skills that arts and humanities programs have to offer.

University of Houston building repairs must be considered amid skyrocketing construction inflation costs

The effect of background music (BGM) on cognitive task performance is a popular topic. However, the evidence is not converging: experimental studies s…

Colleges and universities in the U.S. are facing some strong headwinds on enrollment figures, forcing some tough conversations.

A new correspondent writes:

The routes for academics to become professors are different in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.

<b>50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses</b> <p>Do you want to:</p> <ul> <li>Know what and how well your students are learning?</li> <li>Promote active lear...