By Travis Grandy. When I first started teaching college students, I was pretty sure I knew how to handle them. It was clear enough to me that I knew something they didn’t. Whenever we sat down together, I could feel myself bristling with sophistication, erudition, coolness, and high principles, along with a fervent desire for my students to recognize and emulate my finest qualities. Read more...

By Travis Grandy. I work with a lot of instructors who use writing in their teaching. One of the challenges of teaching with writing is that without the right kinds of support, students might struggle to accomplish learning outcomes, and it can take more time in order for you to give feedback and grade their work. Read more...

By Anjali Gopal. For prospective graduate students, February and March are months when potential graduate schools will pay upwards of $500 to fly you down to their campus and seduce you into joining their programs. Read more...

By Madeleine Elfenbein and Patrick Bigsby. Welcome to Part I of our discussion of graduate student labor and the benefits and concerns related to unionization. Read more...

By Madeleine Elfenbein and Patrick Bigsby. Welcome to Part II of our discussion of graduate student labor and the benefits and concerns related to unionization! Two GradHacker authors, Madeleine Elfenbein and Patrick Bigsby, have agreed to continue discussing their experiences and views related to graduate employment and explaining some of their feelings on graduate labor unions. Be sure to catch up with Part I. Read more...

By Matt Reed. I tip my cap to Washington State for one of the smartest low-cost ideas for college completion I’ve seen in a long time. More...

By Matt Reed. Park Ridge High School (NJ) did something simple and brilliant: it scheduled a work-from-home day for its students. They were expected to work online, and the faculty was expected to have enough material online for the students to be productive. More...

By Matt Reed. A week or so ago I mentioned in passing that the dichotomy of transfer degrees and workforce training is a false one: transfer IS workforce. From the comments, it became clear that the point merited more than a parenthetical. It’s a basic truth in its own right, and it’s too often overlooked. More...