This issue of the magazine includes some of my favorite profiles and interviews published over the past decade. Often, readers who subscribe are disappointed to find out that they must purchase articles from our archive in order to read them. At the moment, we have close...
Feedback should be: Timely Supportive Geared toward improvement Focused on the work, not on the person Selective What does the student most need to know in order to improve? What.
by Rahel Anne Bailie When instructors and course designers create an online course, an accompanying FAQ page is often included as part of the package. While the creators of FAQ.
by Sylvia M. Gross The college textbook is on track to becoming a relic of the paper-and-ink era. On campuses around the country, professors and students are selecting digital versions of books that can be read off of a computer screen. Most college students are used...
[private] by Tamar Lewin An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the.
by Rob Reynolds The current economic crisis is proving to be a game-changer in many industries. Car makers are re-evaluating their new car models and their expectations for sales. Financial.
The cuts are starting to strike nerves in the Seattle Community Colleges district. That's what the district's Board of Trustees found at their monthly meeting in February, when faculty members and students from Seattle Central Community College packed the room to protest the cancellation of several...
Despite a supervised vote by the Ontario Labor Relations Board, Ontario's colleges are refusing to have the ballot boxes opened and the votes counted following a historic vote by part-time.
Professors and adjunct instructors at Montana State University appear to be headed for a vote this spring on the controversial question of whether to form a faculty union. Montana University.
by Marla Kay Houghteling WORDS ARE IMPORTANT to Ken Hardy; he doesn't shy away from the difficult ones. He'd like his students to have this same respect for language. In the summer of 1998, he was teaching an interpersonal-communications course at Jefferson Community College in Louisville,...
