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Orientation of Research Assessment: Quality or Quantity?
“Every faculty member is under heavy research load, and the current system doesn’t encourage cooperation,” explained Prof. Wang Hongcai, a...
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The Liberal Arts for the 21st Century
As we begin the academic year at Alma College, we are working to re-imagine what a liberal arts education is...
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Mindset List, Class of 1915
Each year, Beloit's "Mindset List" suggests that academics will struggle to understand technologically advanced but historically ignorant freshmen. Tim Morris prepares a list that suggests it has always been this way.
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Fragments from Orientation Week
Watching audiences from the back of the auditorium is always enlightening. For Liberal Arts orientations, I saw many tattoos and...
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Saylor.org Free Education: 4 Suggestions
The mission of Saylor.org (which you can read in full here) is admirably ambitious: "We believe that everyone, everywhere should...
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Riots in England. Cheesecake in Versailles
I took my daughter Katie to England and France for her 16th birthday last week, paid for by my summer...
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Two and Out
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the students who get their two-year degree here, and hope to get a...
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All The World's A Stage
Photo: Afshan Jafar Afshan Jafar It’s hunting season! Those of us in the academic world know that August marks the...