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What Assessment Is Really About
Measuring student outcomes is ultimately about trying to improve teaching and learning, and professors should both support and lead such efforts, writes Kate Drezek McConnell.
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Bringing Guilds to Colleges
William G. Durden offers a practical proposal for reinventing liberal arts education.
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Creating an Inclusive Classroom
Strategies for making learning more accessible for students with disabilities often make the classroom experience better for all students, writes Sara Schley.
Academic Help, Under One Roof
Centralizing a range of academic services has boosted their use at Hampshire College.
Woody Allen and Academic Freedom
UC San Diego Academic Senate rejects student-led push to cut a course on the filmmaker from the curriculum over sexual abuse allegations.
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Skills Don’t Matter (Outside Their Context)
Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.
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Against Conformity
Michael S. Roth reflects on the questioning of liberal education in China and the United States.
Taking the Pulse of a Class
New app seeks to shake up student ratings of instruction by promoting open-ended feedback in the moment, throughout the semester, so that the feedback becomes more constructive than punitive.