Teaching

Dominican U. of California tries a four-course sequence to teach new students how we ended up where we are.

Citing demographic and pedagogic trends, growing number of colleges rename departments "world" or "modern" languages.

The way professors prefer to teach may not match the way students can gain the most, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

Brendan Boyle considers the fictions of summer reading programs.

Survey finds that male and female college students pursue science and technology degrees for different reasons -- and they agree that K-12 preparation should be improved.

Academics can answer critics of higher education by changing the narrative about what happens in college, writes Linda M. Grasso.

If colleges want to make it more difficult to earn an A, they need to consider why faculty members feel pressure to award them, writes Peter Eubanks.

Is it a given that technology enhances the acts of writing, as it does the arts and sciences of film-making...