Teaching

Communication professor establishes ground rules for political conversations with his students in class. Could they be useful to other academics struggling with how to encourage productive conversations about the president, while not losing control of the syllabus?

Helping students become familiar with the concept of rape culture provides an opportunity for them to recognize their own values and beliefs in action, writes Cat Pausé.

While Calvin College seeks to ensure that the values that guide its teaching and scholarship will be Christian, it still encourages critical thinking, writes Michael K. Le Roy.

Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.

Howard V. Hendrix explains a new way he plans to deal with what some students characterize as the stress of his too-high demands in class.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s assertion that faculty members tell students what to say and think distorts a basic fact: most professors are dedicated to teaching their students to think independently and critically, argues Susan Resneck Pierce.

UNC board members want law school’s civil rights center to be barred from lawsuits and suing the state -- which the center has done with success in the past.