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Teaching English in a Chinese Way
Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li.
Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation
Our current sociopolitical environment brings new urgency to the need to better support students who are single mothers, Aimée Myers writes.
The Reinvention of the Life Course
How colleges can better prepare students to thrive in today’s volatile, uncertain environment.
The Summer Break That Isn’t
Faculty need to be able to use the time in ways they can return rested and renewed in the fall, but that often doesn’t happen, writes Susannah M. Givens.
Making Sense of MIT’s Diversity Decline
Jim Jump considers the drop in underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students in MIT’s new entering class.
3 Questions for Duke’s Yakut Gazi
A conversation with the first vice provost for learning innovation and digital education.
Stanford Is Making a (Fixable) Mistake
The Jones Lecturer program in creative writing at Stanford has grown into a model when it comes to meeting student needs. For some reason, they’re blowing it up.
Into the Fall
As the summer reading season comes to a close, Scott McLemee looks ahead to forthcoming university press releases.