Teaching

As the academic year comes to an end, Daniel Cole offers some tips for how to grade student essays efficiently and with integrity.

Vassar College senior Ryan Mazurkiewicz reflects on censorship versus discomfort in the classroom.

Drawing on her experiences as seemingly the only atheist in her undergraduate theology and philosophy classes, Mairead Carr writes about how we need to rethink the issue of censorship in college.

Coalitions of companies, colleges and research groups, funded by Gates, will develop digital courses especially aimed at improving learning outcomes for underrepresented students in gateway statistics and chemistry courses.

Students often repeat this handy phrase of praise, but we are not doing them any favors by using it in class—and we’re certainly not helping prepare them for what comes next, writes Rachel Toor.

Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.

Public university systems should invest in training and support for quality teaching, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Penny MacCormack write.