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 ...
UNC professor Chris Petsko initially declined when the Oversight Project requested his syllabus this past summer. But after a new UNC System regulation, the second time a request came, he said he felt ...
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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
Faculty members across Florida public universities and state colleges are preparing to comply with a new regulation requiring them to publicly post their syllabuses and class materials 45 days before ...
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 ...
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 ...
NSW deputy premier Prue Car said up to 26 syllabuses originally slated for release in term 2 will be delayed until term 3 or later for teachers to properly learn the new material before implementing ...
A fifth of high school electives will be cut and students required to meet an acceptable standard in every subject before finishing school, under NSW curriculum reforms to be introduced within five ...