The open floor plan, Ikea-style furnishing and bubbly atmosphere feel more like a Silicon Valley coworking space than a world class humanities center. At the Stanford Literary Lab, the desks might be ...

The UNC System made it official on Dec. 19: all syllabuses that instructors create at constituent universities are now deemed public records — not instructors’ intellectual property and exclusive ...

A couple of weeks ago, I asked for examples of creative or interesting syllabuses that readers wanted to share. “Creative or interesting” is a pretty broad remit: while some of these syllabuses are ...

"Opening the records of a university’s curriculum does not enslave it to the whims of a tyrannical majority — the institution ...

Following recent national trends pushing for diversity in higher education materials, a University of Minnesota professor hopes more will utilize her website that tracks the diversity of professors’ ...

We’ve discussed accessibility issues before on ProfHacker, including accessibility in the classroom. But as I was designing my syllabuses* for Fall 2013, I realized that we’ve never talked about ...

Despite a growing movement to glean insights from scholarly materials that are available online — from articles and data sets to conference presentations and lectures — one kind of academic document ...

The Board of Regents has decided that by the fall of 2026, professors teaching in Georgia’s university system will have to make their syllabuses publicly available online. Transparency is the ...

Florida's teachers and college professors unions are challenging the state's decision to require state college instructors to publicly post course materials, a move trending in conservative states ...