professors

Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable.

As a bonus, professors can even chime in (插话 ) on discussions

professors can join in students' online discussions

professors can give prompt feedback to students' homework

few university professors are willing to do industrial research

Students are e-mailing their professors to receive and discuss their classroom assignments and to submit them.

As I was suffering through my week of anxiety, overthinking the material and guessing my grasp of it, I did some of my own polling among students and professors.

Following the Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an impassioned appeal to her school's professors to refrain from take-home exams.

Most college professors agree the kind of exam they choose largely depends on the subject.

Textbook publishers connect professors, instructors and students in ways that alternatives, such as open e-textbooks and open educational resources, simply do not.

Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some colleges and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to their students.

The lone losers, some fear, could be professors

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in education, though they say it is in its infancy as professors try to come up with useful applications

Many professors think that giving out Apple iPhones or Internet-capable iPods to students may not benefit education as intended.

increase tension between professors and students

Naomi Pugh at Freed-Hardeman University speculated that professors would have to work harder to enliven their classes.

encourage professors to design newer lesson plans

Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas.

There are no changes in the number of courses professors teach or in their pay

Students don't have prized professors to teach them.

Professors would begin the year by saying, "Look to the right and look to the left.

"Our support structure was more like: ‘ You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well, '" he said, hinting at mentors, staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about " belonging" at such a

According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to 27 trigger mental pictures helps people function quicker.

As marketing professors Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan recently explained in Hazard Business Review HBR, leisure time was once seen as an indicator of high social status, something attainable only for those at the top.

Big name schools are not necessarily the best places for professors; plus, many professors split teaching time between multiple colleges and/or universities.

College professors are increasingly raising alarm bells about the effects smartphones, laptops, and tablets have on academic performance.

College professors are increasingly raising alarm bells about the effects smart phones, laptops, and tablets have on academic performance.

For example, in one chapter she exposes a myth that I've heard taught by university physics professors.

However, the professors need not worry so much.

I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

If you can't make the official office hours, most professors are willing to make individual appointments to help you out.

In an online class, developing healthy patterns of communication with professors is very important.

Professors are not trained nurses, financial aid experts or your best friends.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas — such as free markets, self-reliance — as falling outside th