While we deal with students primarily in the classroom, we are not insensitive to their larger struggles. As a new academic year approaches, one scourge in particular stands out: the epidemic of ...

After two years of work by the LSA Student Government, LSA students can finally design a course schedule with no exams through a new website that archives past class syllabi. LSA senior Pallavi ...

For decades, the syllabus has been the roadmap to college classes, listing homework, assignments, and most crucially, texts for students to read and reference. But while a syllabus might be able to ...

The UNC system president cited low trust in higher education as justification for the new policy, which echoes rules in Florida and Texas. Faculty are fighting the decision. Two months after legal ...

Screenshot from the Open Syllabus Project's "graph" of assigned texts in its millions of syllabi. What if you could map every book and article assigned in college courses around the world and see ...

Every syllabus should be published, indexed, and freely available online. Where possible, the online syllabus should have these 5 traits: 1. Published in Web format, in addition to a PDF or Word ...

Publicly posting required course content and course objectives will produce a chilling effect where faculty feel pressure to self-censor the content of their courses to avoid being pulled into the ...

CT lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt state college and university course syllabi from the Freedom of ...