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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TeachingNavigating Conduct Challenges in Class
One university created a workshop to help faculty members minimize conflict over everything from aggressive emails to rude behavior. -
Classroom Challenges
Toxic Emails, Unrealistic Expectations, and Classroom Disruptions
Do faculty members need help resetting boundaries? -
Teaching
What Happens to Teaching After Covid?
A new book examines how the pandemic will continue to shape teaching for years to come. -
Teaching
What Will Higher Ed’s Online Future Look Like?
Surveys show a growing interest in blended and online teaching, but instructors want more support to do it well. -
The Future of Teaching
The Promise of Online Teaching Is Evident. Are Colleges Ready?
Pandemic necessity cleared the way for sweeping change in the classroom, but the faculty and students are still working out the details. -
Teaching
How to Help Students Better Understand Generative AI
Whether it’s to show students how ChatGPT fails or where it can succeed, professors are trying new assignments this semester to support AI literacy. -
Teaching
Want Your Students to Be Skeptical of ChatGPT? Try This.
An instructor describes how his writing students reacted after he had them use AI to write an essay. -
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The Changing Classroom
What Will Determine AI’s Impact on College Teaching? 5 Signs to Watch.
Academics have been consumed by the technology’s potential to disrupt education, but recent analyses present a more complicated picture. -
Teaching
Could Reflection Be a Key to Better Teaching?
At Michigan State University, the chemistry department hopes to move away from traditional forms of faculty evaluations.
