Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Meet the hosts of "The Academic Life."

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...

Listen to this interview of Kit Nicholls, Director of Cooper Union Center for Writing. We talk about writing, thinking, the university, and what everyone cares about...

Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,

Carlo approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has,,,

Do you teach, or do you care about education? Then you have to read this book.

Harris and his team describe, and present results from, their classroom-based pilots of this new and highly innovative approach to neuroscience and STEM education...

Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...

Young surveyed over 1,100 then-current law students, 250 alumni, and conducted detailed interviews with law students about their experiences in law school and concerns about pedagogy, other students, law professors, and hopes and fears about school and their future careers...

Strossen dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony...

Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...

"Critical Thinking." You hear a lot about it, but what is it?

Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...

Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....

Kim and Maloney document major transformations at colleges and universities that have been quietly taking place, even amidst noise about crisis and disruption...

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art...

Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...

What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?

Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...

The book offers a comprehensive discussion of conducting research on online talk...

The game, as Davies notes, was not just something imposed upon Natives in locales such as the Indian Industrial Training School in Haskell, Kansas (and elsewhere). The game provided linkages to the Native past...