The Prose of Participation: 15 Minutes with Julie Schrock and Steven Benko
Two professors share insights, advice, and challenges for increasing student participation in the classroom.
News Roundup: Keeping Attention, Soft Skills, and a Textbook Purge
Research-based strategies for keeping students’ attention, and tips to improve your work–life balance with time-management strategies.
Week in Review: Keeping students’ attention
Week in Review: “High touch” learning
Redeploying Faculty for Student Success
Every university president knows the power of a great professor. Two leaders say it’s time to reorganize the academe with that in mind.
Week in Review: How to discover your passion
Week in Review: Fostering student diversity
Techniques to Help Underprepared Students Learn More
“Instruction is the core of any developmental education strategy,” Thomas Bailey and Shanna Smith Jaggars write in “When College Students Start Behind.” The report on underprepared students is the fifth installment of The Century Foundation’s ongoing College Completion Series. Bailey, founding director of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and Jaggars, director of Student Success Research […]