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Making the Best of Assessment
Professors are right to doubt the motives of many of those pushing for precise measures of student learning, but that doesn't mean the ideas behind assessment aren't valid or that they are inconsistent with the liberal arts, writes Adam Kotsko.
Disciplinary Power Struggle
Medievalists try to make sense of sudden departure (without a public explanation) of co-executive directors of their scholarly association.
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Engaged Students
Students may be more willing to welcome significant learning experiences than critics of academe realize, at least if professors make the right assignments, writes Robert M. Eisinger.
New Model for Business Education
Editors of new volume of essays discuss their ideas about the importance to undergraduate programs of including arts and sciences disciplines in meaningful ways.
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A Better Factory Model
The factory production model can work as a means for evaluating community college efficiency, write Clive Belfield and Davis Jenkins.
Big Disruption, Big Questions
Possible end game for competency-based education emerges with five new "direct assessment" programs, as foundations and experts discuss how to ensure academic quality.
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Notes from the Underground
A new book explores the subterranean connections between geology and mythology. Scott McLemee returns from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
Newly Tenured ... at Anna Maria, California Lutheran, Kalamazoo, Marian, U. of Richmond
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges and universities: Anna Maria College Virginia Heslinga. English Dianne...