In August 2025, the CTE launched a sequence of two free, non-credit-bearing programs that prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for teaching careers in higher education: Tier 1: the ...

Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “The Future of Graduate Education,” available in the Chronicle Store. It’s dicey to predict the future in the best of times.

The College of Education and Human Development placed within the top 90 graduate programs for Education in the 2023-2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings, an annual compendium judging universities ...

At Western Michigan University, Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) serve in a role related to teaching; some are instructors of record (meaning they are the ones primarily responsible for a course); ...