College students often look at the syllabus as something to ignore until a due date sneaks up. Markus Proctor wants to change that. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Proctor sees ...

Karen Afre, director of the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues like to tell first-year students that they’re taking an extra, unofficial course called “learning how to be ...

The course syllabus is one of the central artifacts of higher education. It is a critical means of communication between teacher and student and is often the first form of interaction. The syllabus ...