Other futuristic content in this issue includes advice on how to spice up your classroom with virtual technology, and a report on the growing number of academic programs focused on drone technology.
Threats and leafleting by white supremacists, a controversial opinion piece in the student newspaper, and a student-government standoff have fueled a year of unrest.
About 60 percent of the university’s voting faculty members declared they had no confidence in the leadership of Wayne A.I. Frederick. Last week student protesters concluded an eight-day sit-in at the campus’s main administration building.
Are you a department chair who wants to give new faculty members a guide to teaching? Or a Ph.D. student looking for tips on what it takes to be a good instructor? Chronicle editors have compiled a collection of articles and essays that offer lessons for those teaching in the college classroom for the first time. Buy your copy of the 38-page booklet in our new Chronicle store.
When students arrive on campus unprepared for even the most minimal expectations of college work, they are set up to fail. Here’s how college leaders can change that.
Why does the tired phrase without further ado still get so much air time? William Germano investigates.
Paid for and Created by University of Florida From the Brink of Extinction UF doctoral student leaves high-power job to pursue her passion for protecting wildlife.
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