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Top Business Schools Look to Social Scientists to Enhance Research
The tight academic job market has given some the incentive to explore faculty positions outside their disciplines.
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Law Professor Gives Law Schools a Failing Grade
Professors are underworked and overpaid, and the schools are an increasingly poor career choice for students, writes Brian Tamanaha in a forthcoming book.
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New Book Lists 'Best' Professors, but Skeptics Question Its Methods
The Princeton Review, with student input from surveys and RateMyProfessors.com, seeks to identify the 300 best professors in the country.
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How 'Flipping' the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture
It may not have the gee-whiz factor of high-tech innovation, but changing expectations for what happens in class may prove to be a bigger advance in teaching.
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Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching
A conference kicks off a $40-million project dedicated to improving student learning, but old habits die hard, participants say.
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Summit on Adjuncts Yields Tentative Framework for Campaign to Improve Their Conditions
A draft document offered by leaders of the New Faculty Majority calls on colleges to make sweeping changes, and for adjuncts to have a voice in them.
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Note to Faculty: Don't Be Such a Know-It-All
When faculty show students how they struggle to find answers, it can be a valuable lesson, panelists said at a UVa workshop.
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With NSF Support, Research Moves Into Science Labs of 2-Year Colleges
Original research in biology, which is thought to spark student interest and bolster majors, makes its way to the associate-degree level.
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Psst: Don't Tell Anyone, but Some Professors Like Teaching
Panelists at an anthropology meeting "confess" why they care about teaching—when they have plenty of incentives not to.
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Private-Colleges Group Says a Standardized Test Improves Teaching and Learning
The Collegiate Learning Assessment can be an effective tool in the classroom, a new study finds.
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