Teaching

Laurence Musgrove pens a poem as the new academic year begins.

While long resisting grade inflation, Michael S. Berger found that without the normal in-person teaching to help motivate students during COVID, they struggled to meet the rigor he demanded.

Want students to mask up in class? The University of Texas at Austin has an idea: offer students nonacademic incentives of up to $50 to do so. The caveat? The university isn’t paying for any of it.

New report finds most first-year students struggled to learn when the pandemic moved classes online -- in part because of limited access to technology and resources.

When it comes to assessing student performance, the fact is that some students may fail -- yes, even in a pandemic -- yet that doesn’t make the instructor a bad educator, writes Deborah J. Cohan.

With sexual assaults, racism and anxiety spiraling on college campuses, such warnings are needed now more than ever, argues Michael Bugeja.

Georgia State University fired an instructor who refused to teach in a classroom without a mask mandate.