At the end of each semester, students are left with a single grade to let them know how well they did in a course. They are not, however, often given strategies on how to improve those grades in the ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of Teaching the Adult Learner: Practical Strategies for Higher Ed Success, a six-part series exploring how colleges can better support nontraditional students.

As we move deeper into 2026, the landscape of student learning has shifted dramatically with the arrival of specialized AI tools designed for specific academic disciplines. For students balancing the ...

Primary sources are the raw materials of history, offering firsthand perspectives that bring the past to life. Learning to analyze them—whether documents, images, artifacts, or oral histories—sharpens ...