Teaching

Scholars consider how to revive the liberal arts and consider the importance of math and science, impact of hyperspecialization, economic inequality, public attitudes, admissions strategies and more.

Scholars at conference on whether liberal arts need saving focus on evolving threats, including diminishing attention spans, mounting consumerism and a desire by administrators to quantify everything.

Since Wednesday, students have occupied part of humanities college at Seattle University, demanding shifts in curriculum and resignation of dean alleged to have used slur to refer to book title.

Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.

Conference at Georgetown U discusses how to train future ed-tech leaders and whether creating a new discipline is the answer.

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom.

Creating a new competency-based degree program isn't easy, writes Cathy Sandeen, who shares lessons she learned from helping to develop the UW Flexible Option.

By Cathy Sandeen