Curriculum

The exam was changed to a pass-fail model, ostensibly to relieve student stress. Critics say the change has not reduced stress but has amplified inequities among students.

“Programmed” thinking—the tendency to try to solve educational problems with required courses and curricula—has outlived its usefulness, Chris W. Gallagher writes.

A new coalition aims to embed into curricula experiences that develop student agency and purpose and improve their well-being decades later.

If not designed carefully, study abroad programs risk reinforcing injustices, epistemic and otherwise, Liz Bucar writes.

Amy Gais writes that her students judge women writers much more harshly than male writers—and considers what can be done about it.

Pennsylvania’s Millersville University has begun offering ethics certificates. It’s among multiple philosophy departments that have shaken things up.