Beth McMurtrie is a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she writes about the future of learning and technology’s influence on teaching. In addition to her reported stories, she helps write the weekly Teaching newsletter about what works in and around the classroom. She has been with The Chronicle since 1999 and has written about many facets of higher education, including campus culture (diversity, free speech, fraternities, and binge drinking), scholars’ influence on public policy, and the challenges facing religious colleges. She has been a finalist in (2015) and a winner of (2009) the Education Writers Association’s National Awards for Education Reporting. She is the author of The Future of Learning: How Colleges Can Transform the Educational Experience (2018), and also spent eight years as The Chronicle’s international editor.
McMurtrie holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Email her at beth.mcmurtrie@chronicle.com, and follow her on Twitter @bethmcmurtrie.
Stories by this Author
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The Student Mind-Set
Is This the End of Reading?
Students are less able and less willing to read. Professors are stymied. What needs to change? -
Teaching
How to Teach About Contentious Topics Like Israel and Hamas
One professor shares his approach to debating fraught issues. -
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A space for dialogue
Yes, Students Can Have a Reasoned Debate About Israel-Hamas
A political-science course at the Johns Hopkins University wrestles with the questions tearing campuses apart. -
Teaching
How Has ChatGPT Affected Your Teaching This Semester?
We want to hear whether things have improved, gotten worse, or stayed about the same. -
Teaching
More on How — and Whether — to Develop Students’ Study Skills
An essay on “studenting skills” prompted thoughts from readers. -
Teaching
Should You Teach Your Students How to Be Students?
A teaching expert challenges professors to add skill-building to their syllabi. Should that be their role? -
Teaching
Tackling Stale Discussion Posts, Poor Reading Skills, and Other Challenges
We dive into these dilemmas with readers’ help, and some questions for you. -
Teaching
How to Help Students Who Lack Critical Reading Skills
Instructors share stories and strategies in response to concerns about a decline in reading abilities. -
Judgment Days
‘A Culture of Fear and of Pandering’: What Readers Told Us About Teaching Evaluations
Instructors find them marginally useful at best. Administrators say they help identify outliers.