“What’s the point of a survey course?” I’m not sure who asks that question more often — the students who have to take the class or the instructors who have to teach it. It’s no secret that most ...

Last semester I reinvented English composition as a community-service learning course. My students did the usual work of any composition course — developing basic writing skills, crafting narrative ...

The literature survey course is taught at most colleges and universities. Its content and pedagogy are debated frequently at disciplinary meetings and in faculty lounges. A new collection of essays ...

Regarding Wight Martindale Jr.’s op-ed “This Old Man, He Teaches History” (Nov. 17): After several decades in a business-school classroom, I can concur with the author’s “rule No. 1,” his emphasis on ...

Course evaluations: everyone knows them and uses them, but does everyone know what are they good for? Opinions are very much split on how to evaluate the evaluation. University teachers differ from ...

Hope College has always had effective, energizing instruction as one main priority. It is this spirit that guides the desire to continuously develop the instructional skills of faculty and academic ...

All University of Nevada, Reno courses are now evaluated through online course evaluation software called Eval25, except for those offered by the School of Medicine and USAC and courses that do not ...