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Monday, April 17, 2017


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Teaching

Math Gets a Makeover premium

By Shannon Najmabadi

The latest push to improve mathematics courses seeks to transform them from a gatekeeper to a gateway.

Faculty

A Professor Reflects on Her Time in the Eye of a Social-Media Storm

By Chris Quintana

Areej Zufari says she gave a failing grade to a troublesome student; he told the media he was unfairly singled out for his Christianity. The professor talks about the digital pillorying that came next.

Curriculum

To Teach the Business of Marijuana, One Professor Faces the Challenges of a New Industry premium

By Tom Hesse

There’s plenty of demand in Colorado for instruction on selling legal cannabis. But building a course around a fast-changing, heavily regulated industry is a tall order, as Paul Seaborn has found out.

Publishing

Publishers and Open-Resource Advocates Square Off on the Future of Course Content

By Goldie Blumenstyk

A debate hosted by The Chronicle at this year’s South by Southwest Edu conference offered its fair share of humor — and a few pointed jabs.

re:Learning at SXSWedu

Can Lessons Learned From Fighting Al Qaeda Apply to Higher Education?

By Goldie Blumenstyk

William H. McRaven, a retired admiral in the U.S. Navy who is now chancellor of the University of Texas system, describes the value of a “team of teams” and the role of the university as a home for dissent.


Views


The Chronicle Review

If You Have Tenure, Quit Complaining premium

By Noam Shpancer

Just because our way of life is nearly extinct doesn’t mean we can’t relish it.

Advice

The Distracted Classroom: Is It Getting Worse?

By James M. Lang

Today’s devices do have a more negative effect on students’ attention span than did new technologies of the past.

Lingua Franca

'The Dictionary'

Anne Curzan considers the range of works in play when we tell someone to look up a word to see what it means.


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