Academic Life

A Queens College professor and two students designed an online resource center to support neurodivergent students. Here’s how—and why—other institutions can better support faculty members and staff through a similar effort.

Adelphi University’s interdisciplinary 360 seminars focus on narrow themes, with guest lectures and atypical assessments.

Wake Forest University academic coaches assist students in organizing academic deadlines from their syllabi.

Humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts will develop 10 exportable curricular modules on such topics as genetics and race.

Georgia Institute of Technology gathers student feedback on general education assessment to better understand how they frame and grasp learning outcomes.

On the Teaching for Student Success podcast, a physics professor at Harvard discusses his study on how much students get from active learning environments, as well as surprising findings about how they prefer to be taught.

In the new Story Lab at the University of Iowa business school, students learn to craft and deliver compelling stories to help them stand out when connecting with recruiters and employers, as well as future colleagues.

Academic advising works—when students use it. What can be done to boost student engagement with academic advising structures?