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I Stopped Grading my Students’ Work – and I Wish I’d Stopped Sooner

by Elizabeth Gruner I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work, and it has transformed my teaching and my students’ learning. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. Starting in...

New Pandemic Health Habits for These Four Scholars – Here’s What They’re Doing and Why

by Libby Richards, Jessica Bane Robert, Katherine Basbaum, L. Allison Phillips Walking as a source of solitude and connection Libby Richards, Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University As a busy.

Times Higher Education Acquires Inside Higher Ed

Leading providers of university insights and data will reach combined audience of more than 50 million annually. Times Higher Education has acquired the US-based business Inside Higher Ed, in a deal that.

Research: Five Studies Show Online Learning Not Working at Two-Year Colleges

Newest California study finds students are 11% less likely to pass an online version of the same class. by Jill Barshay Here’s an unusual case where scholarly research is producing a clear conclusion: online instruction at community colleges isn’t working. Yet policymakers are continuing to...

UC Lecturers Reach New Contract Agreement

University of California lecturers will no longer strike after coming to a tentative agreement with the UC on contract negotiations Wednesday. The University Council-American Federation of Teachers and the UC.

Six Thousand Univ. of California Lecturers Threaten to Strike

From Labor Notes. Reprinted here with permission. After more than two years of stalled negotiations, 6,000 University of California lecturers are preparing to strike. The lecturers do one-third of all.

After Six Months of Negotiation, UChicago Reaches Agreement With Non-Tenured Faculty

In a tentative agreement on a new contract, the UChicago administration has agreed to provide better pay and more protections for non-tenure-track faculty after a six-month-long negotiation process with Faculty Forward, the union that represents more than 300 instructors teaching more than 1,500 courses at...

Climate Change is a Health Crisis. Are Medical Schools Prepared?

by Aditi Malhotra On a gray, drizzly January afternoon, more than 80 students gathered inside room M106 at Stanford School of Medicine for a lecture on how the changing climate.

U-M Lecturers’ Union Ratifies Historic Contract

by Brianna Foraker On Sunday, September 19th, the University of Michigan Lecturers’ Union (LEO – AFT MI Local 6244) announced ratification of the Union’s 2021-2024 contract. With a 96.6 percent.

Five Characteristics of an Effective Science Teacher–Do You Have Them?

by Meenakshi Sharma Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under sunlight and flashlight. Students would collect evidence to understand how light helps them see,...