A professor shares some promising results from sending a personalized message to students who failed her first exam — one example of the kind of “nudge” that can boost student performance.
Claudrena Harold discusses the difficult conversations she’s had with students and colleagues at the University of Virginia. “These events tested their faith,” she says.
Like many universities, the Ivy League institution is asking itself how to interact with its ugly past. Naming an arch after former slave who worked there is a step forward, some historians say.
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A confluence of expertise, enthusiasm, talent, and social responsibility makes universities the logical first responders to the growing climate-change crisis.
So long as weâre expanding the emoji lexicon to include less sexist imagery, says Lucy Ferriss, letâs open things up on both sides.
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