Teaching
Course Correction
Midterm feedback from students gives professors a chance to adjust their courses to improve learning and student satisfaction.
The China Conundrum
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Chinese Students Prove a Tricky Fit on U.S. Campuses
A big increase in the number of students from China would seem to be a boon for American colleges, but it's proved to be challenging all around.
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Selecting the Students Who Will Thrive
Hard numbers like SAT scores may determine if they will excel as students, but it's the soft skills that will determine if they thrive on your campus community.
- Audio: How to Understand the New Crop of Chinese Students
In the World
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Planet Academe: A Palestinian Group Creates a Generation of Inventors
A nonprofit organization works with students from fourth grade through university graduation to help them think scientifically.
- Canada's Professors Fear for Future of National Library and Archives
- WorldWise: The Travails of the U. of Wales Are a Sign of the Need for Better Regulation
From the Blogs
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Going Short
Plain words may be better than fancy ones. Ben Yagoda (with E.B. White) explains why.
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Letters of Wreck
David Barash waxes superlative about his graduating students—at least the ones he remembers.
- 'Speed Dating' Writing Workshops
The Great Migration
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A Cross-Country Fight for Students
More public universities are fanning out across the nation to recruit, and students are responding.
In the U.S.
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The Fraud Who Fooled (Almost) Everyone
The interim report on the vast research fraud by the social psychologist Diederik Stapel begins to explain how he was able to get away with it for so long. But not why.
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$150-Million Gift to Stanford Seeks to Alleviate Poverty in Developing World
The money will be used to create a multidisciplinary institute that will develop and disseminate innovations to solve problems in areas like health care and transportation.
- Senate Committee Reported Incorrect Data on For-Profit Veterans' Education Benefits
- New Book Describes the Rigors and Rewards of Going Test-Optional
- Mortality of College Students Varies From What Was Predicted
- Curtailgating 101: Ithaca College Tries to Interfere With a Boozy Tradition
- Anthropology Course Explores the Life Cycle of, Say, Your Pen
- Class of 2010 Graduates Who Borrowed Took Out an Average of About $25,250 in Loans
- To Monitor Online Testing, Western Governors U. Gives Students Webcams
- Disclosure Requirements for Colleges Are Often Ignored, Report Says
Arts & Letters Daily
My brain made me do it. Can neuroscience distinguish between an automatic impulse and a self-directed action? Mike Gazzaniga chooses to weigh the evidence. More
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