The Year in Teaching Was …
The Year in Teaching Was …  
Podcast: College Matters from The Chronicle
Published On: Wed Dec 03 2025
Description: It’s been a pivotal year for higher education, and that’s particularly true for college professors. The ubiquity of artificial intelligence, the enormity of political pressure, and the severity of financial constraints on many college campuses have conspired to create learning environments of profound unease and uncertainty. At the same time, many faculty members look at 2025 as a year when the promise of new technologies became more clear, and the strength of collegial communities became more crucial. Can a year like this be summed up in a single word? We’ll find out.   Related Reading:  Sign up to receive The Chronicle’s Teaching newsletter AI Has Joined the Faculty (The Chronicle)  How to Restore Joy in the Classroom (The Chronicle)   Grading is Broken (The Chronicle)  Guest:  Beth McMurtrie, senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education Beckie Supiano, senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education  For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.