The course syllabus is one of the central artifacts of higher education. It is a critical means of communication between teacher and student and is often the first form of interaction. The syllabus ...

Let’s be honest: no one’s exactly excited to read through a syllabus. It’s usually handed out (or posted) on the first day of class, and most of us skim through it… maybe. But after a few semesters at ...

Across the nation, first-year college students are arriving at their new campus homes and are engaged in orientation programs—essentially crash courses on life as a college student. They are settling ...

Karen Afre, director of the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues like to tell first-year students that they’re taking an extra, unofficial course called “learning how to be ...

The post Student Followed Her Professor’s Syllabus To The Letter, But She Ended Up Humiliating Him When She Implied That His ...

My daughter is a senior in high school and entering the first phases of the college admission process, which I recently wrote about here at Inside Higher Ed. With the Common App opening on Aug. 1, she ...

Transitioning from high school to college is a big step, and one of the biggest changes is your experience in the classroom. From the way classes are structured to the expectations for students, ...

As one college professor mulled over how best to proceed with his classes amid coronavirus disruptions, this was the primary principle that he concluded should guide his decisions. From there, he ...

The University of California is joining a national initiative to offer free online courses to students at low-income high schools across the country beginning next year. The university system is ...