Last semester I reinvented English composition as a community-service learning course. My students did the usual work of any composition course — developing basic writing skills, crafting narrative ...

Regarding Wight Martindale Jr.’s op-ed “This Old Man, He Teaches History” (Nov. 17): After several decades in a business-school classroom, I can concur with the author’s “rule No. 1,” his emphasis on ...

The English Department will triple the number of survey courses offered next year because more than half of the senior concentrators are "inadequately prepared" for their general examinations, ...

Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) is a web-based course evaluation tool to help evaluate courses and instructors. The electronic questionnaire allows students to provide feedback, which ...

Are survey courses what they might be? Four years have passed since a special faculty committee of the University recommended the institution of the lower division system, which includes these ...

Annual spending on college course materials fell to a decade low last academic year, due in large part to the continuing shift toward digital materials. But a new study finds that college students ...

Course evaluations: everyone knows them and uses them, but does everyone know what are they good for? Opinions are very much split on how to evaluate the evaluation. University teachers differ from ...

Sometimes it is necessary to re-think the courses we teach in a fundamental way. By 2019, I had taught a survey course on British history before 1660 (HIST 1113) for a decade. Although I tweaked the ...

As online courses continue to permeate the curricula of many higher education institutions, administrators often raise the issue of a maximum number of students in a course—the “course cap”—as a ...

All University of Nevada, Reno courses are now evaluated through online course evaluation software called Eval25, except for those offered by the School of Medicine and USAC and courses that do not ...