What’s Your Advice for Students Starting College? An Open Letter to Students
As the new academic year rolls around, hordes of new students venture onto campus. Some of them did well in high school and come to college prepared for the rigors…
Free Inquiry and Expression: From Principles to Educational Practice
Hundreds of colleges and universities have adopted free expression and institutional speech documents from the University of Chicago. In 1899, the University of Chicago faculty unanimously resolved that complete freedom…
Adding Virtual Field Trips to Your Teaching Tool Kit
For years, an undergraduate geography lesson in a history of religion course centered on Jerusalem posed the same challenge: How can you give students a feel for the actual city?…