Teaching

Bob Blaisdell never condemned a student for reading a book, regardless of its subject matter or author. Until one day.

If we’re in higher education to educate, Jillian Joyce asks, what keeps college teachers from learning more about teaching?

Students may resist it, but rereading a literary text offers many benefits, argues Rachel Wagner.

Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved -- and should evolve.

Such learning is not only possible but also measurable, write Rebecca and Daniel Haggerty, who describe an approach that other institutions might consider adopting.

A departmental committee told a professor he had to teach Judith Butler in his class in the name of gender balance. He refused. As for Butler, she doesn’t want her work forced on him.

Professors typically refrain from talking about their now-notable former students publicly, but some feel moved to do so in the public interest, good or bad.

Students need to read more, talk about ideas and then write shorter papers more often, writes Deborah J. Cohan.