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Ask the Deans
Deans are struggling with similar issues across disciplines and have ideas for grappling successfully with them, but we’re often an underutilized campus resource, writes Marie Chisholm-Burns.
If You Need to Escape: Run Toward, Not From
Some good advice I received many years ago.
Can Civics Education in Colleges Strengthen Democracy?
Only if it goes well beyond calls to improve civic knowledge, cultivate responsible citizenship and nurture tolerance and civility.
No Return to ‘Normal’
The placid ivy-covered walls and calm quad will remain when COVID is vanquished, but the university will never be the same. We are forever changed -- by the disease and by the advance of technology and competition in this, the fourth industrial revolution.
IRB Roadblock
An overly restrictive institutional review board can take down an entire academic program and weaken the research reputation of a university, writes Dale R. Wagner.
In Which a Student Steals the Show
A dispatch from civility week.
Oral Exams in a Virtual Classroom
Offering exams in that format can be beneficial to both the instructor and the students in multiple ways, writes Kevin Sun, who provides recommendations for faculty who are considering it.
Streaming Workouts, Home Gyms and Campus-Based Learning
Why the future of residential education is seamless, social and personalized.