It’s student evaluation time again—and I should be the last professor in the world to complain. With slight exceptions for “caring too much” and courses that meet “too early” (9:10 a.m.), my ...

The saddest and most profound transformation I have witnessed nationwide in my many decades in higher education is professors’ increasing fear of college students. This fear, borne of the increasing ...

The Gainesville Sun broke a story on July 19 that has potentially significant implications for postsecondary instructors across the country. The story concerned a lawsuit brought by Darnell Rhea, an ...

Teaching is a bottomless well of unrealized potential – this is what makes it so interesting – but overall, I’m pleased with this semester’s results. There’s a handful of things I’m Monday-morning ...

Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...

Aaahh. It’s evaluation season. Time for the tables to be turned on you. Yes, you, the professor. You thought you were being so clever by trying to institute some kind of an email policy: Telling your ...

In the coming weeks, students will participate in a ritual as familiar as it is reviled: evaluating their instructors. Is there a better tool out there? If student input matters, how can it be made ...

Maki O’Bryan faced the teacher from hell her junior year at George Washington High School in San Francisco.The teacher was constantly late to class, talked about her personal life, put down her ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Not too long ago, researchers at a large Midwestern university arranged to have a speaker give the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Distance education has experienced soaring development over the last decade. With millions of students in higher education enrolling in ...

Sean Decatur is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College. Updated September 26, 2012, 3:25 PM As a faculty member, I have ...