professors

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For a time-traveler drill, professors had to pretend to be from the past and a partner had two minutes to explain what a cellphone was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Some professors in pharmacy, engineering and education schools also publicly opposed unionizing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

As finance and applied investments professors who study how businesses make decisions amid uncertainty, we have been watching this tension build.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

Though her professors warned against using it to cheat on assignments, she wasn’t tempted.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson