Eyewitness History
First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
Education
College Prep
A new school serves high-achieving juniors and seniors in Zimbabwe
Floating Ideas
A new course combines the history of boat building with hands-on construction.
Father of the Open Curriculum
Meet the emeritus professor who paved the way for the University’s signature approach to education.
How Open is “Open”?
First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.
A Major of One’s Own
Independent concentrations are a flagship of the Open Curriculum. Here are 5 being pursued today.
Teacher of the Year
Making AP English exciting
Radical Vision
Life, death, love, and humanity through the eyes of Toni Morrison.
Mr. Dinosaur
Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit.
Wilderness Therapy
Transformative learning in the backwoods of Maine
Perspectives on 1968
Nineteen professors and experts co-taught a class on the seminal year.
Tom Eastler ’66
He showed anyone, anywhere, how to racewalk
Safe School
Endangered scholars find a haven at Brown
Applied Academics
Engaged scholars put what they’re learning into immediate action
Winning Formula
A group of alums is trying to inspire uncommon success in public education.