Business Essentials

Professor Tools:
Majority of these topics can be found on our education page for professors:
WSJ Professor Hub includes critical thinking resources above and How-To Guides.

WSJ Seminar Series which highlights how to use WSJ's content to connect academic theory with real-world applications. In the past semesters we did a series of faculty seminars on how to use WSJ in their coursework. Past videos can be found on the archive section of the website.

Critical Thinking Resource offers you case studies you can utilize in your course. Currently available for business, finance, marketing, journalism, technology, and political science, each downloadable PDF includes WSJ articles along with a classroom application and questions. This can help you save time on lecture prep with articles and questions you can assign directly to your students.

Coronavirus Critical Thinking Resource - For professors who are looking to incorporate recent Coronavirus coverage into their courses we have created a Critical Thinking Resource with dedicated Coronavirus articles from The Wall Street Journal.

Assessment Tool offers you an easy way to assess your students’ knowledge of current events with WSJ articles. Each week, faculty contributors create and upload customizable multiple choice and true/false quizzes. Additionally, quizzes are auto graded and grades can be exported to add to your grade book or LMS.

WSJContext is the Journal’s first higher education-focused product allowing instructors to seamlessly integrate WSJ content into lectures through shared reading lists. WSJ Context makes it simple to curate relevant articles based on the courses you teach, allowing you to share important and timely news stories with students every week.

Integration with Canvas: The tool that can be integrated through canvas is WSJ Context and The Assessment Tool. Instructions on how to integrate WSJContext into Canvas can be found in the attached Canvas integration guide. There are also some instructions on the Canvas site which can be found here.


The Weekly Review newsletter is created by faculty contributors who source three to five discipline specific WSJ articles each week and write a pedagogical application as well as critical thinking questions that allows you to integrate into your classroom discussions or exams.

How-To Guides - offers you a trusted resource for interactive learning and student engagement during this time when remote teaching is more important than ever. Download the guides to discover simple and seamless ways to incorporate WSJ’s broad and adverse content into online classes.


Student Focused WSJ Content
Majority of these topics can be found on our education page for students.
Students.wsj.com is a website which brings together articles for students on: Job Prep, Finance Tips, Career Insights, and Expert Advice. "We are all business majors".
WSJ Noted - A new digital magazine that was created specifically to serve the needs and interests of those ages 18–34. Noted speaks to—and with—this younger generation as they navigate an evolving world.
Future View - (Published every Tuesday night.) Future View is a WSJ Opinion series which allows students to contribute to politics, culture and global affairs.
WSJ Money - Students can use this resource to find personal finance and money management information and submit money questions of their own. Financial aid officers and counselors will find the student loan content valuable as well.
WSJ Jobs - A place for students and career center staff to discover the latest information on business and careers. Students can find valuable information on how to best present themselves as they enter the labor market and ask WSJ reporters specific career questions.

American Scientist, Architectural Digest, Artforum International, Atlantic Monthly, Baumeister, Best Business schools, Black E O E Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bust, Career Mastered, Consumer Reports, Discover, DIVERSEability, Diversity in Steam, ENR, Entrepreneur, Essence, Forbes, Fortune, Hispanic Outlook on Education, House Beautiful, Latino Leaders, MIT Technology Review, Motor Trend, National Geographic, Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, New Yorker, Out, Oxford American, Time.

The Business Searching Interface (BSI) is EBSCO's highly focused user interface created especially for the business searcher. Business Searching Interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research available in Business Source Ultimate.

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