The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...

For many students, group projects elicit feelings of frustration due to improperly managed or unequally distributed labor or burdensome time allocated to an assignment. However, group work can give ...

Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...

We all work in groups sometimes. We brainstorm in groups. Students work on group projects. Even faculty at universities work in committees, and our research projects are generally collaborations.

Tell you about a new student guide to effective group work developed at Lafayette College. Share how some newsletter readers start the semester. Lafayette College’s mechanical-engineering department ...

The reality is that the ways in which we work are fundamentally changing.” Dear staff, Last summer, in response to the pandemic and other workplace dynamics, Northwestern implemented an Alternative ...

In May, when one of my daughters returned home from her sophomore year, I asked her to sum up how she felt about college life at the halfway point. Socially, after months of disruption caused by the ...

This spring, we committed to engaging the community to learn about the challenges and opportunities related to working remotely and to hear your thoughts about Northwestern’s Alternative Work ...

Well-being programs continue to be a central focus for employers, and they're evolving the reach of these offerings into new areas such as the social determinants of health, according to a new survey.

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part One, Valentina Gonzalez, Olivia Montero Petraglia, Jenny Vo, and Jennifer Mitchell provided their ...