Johann Neem
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| Time and Money | It may make sense to move beyond the Carnegie unit, but where should we go? This is the question at the heart of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s new report, The Carnegie Unit, on which Inside Higher Ed reported this week. |
2015-01-30 | |
| Business leaders hope online university can boost Hispanic education | While more jobs in Texas require college degrees, the state's fastest-growing population group has struggled more than any other to make it to graduation. The situation creates a growing skills gap that has business leaders looking to boost the number of Hispanic college graduates.… |
2014-09-22 | |
| Faculty lauded for excellence at annual awards | 2014-05-16 | ||
| How to Evaluate Academic Research | Recently, the value of academic research, especially in the humanities and social sciences, has been questioned. The current majority party in the House of Representatives has proposed cutting science funding for social science research and eliminating all funding for the National Endowment for… |
2014-05-15 | |
| Guest column: Western needs to be more diverse | There are a lot of accusations about Western’s “racist” President Bruce Shepard. Shepard had the guts to ask a tough question: how should the institution respond to changing demographics? |
2014-04-18 | |
| Experience Matters: Why Competency-Based Education Will Not Replace Seat Time | There is a growing trend in higher education to offer college credit for “prior learning” and demonstrated competence. In one of the highest profile speeches of his tenure as secretary of education, Arne Duncan (2011) praised giving college credit for what students know instead of “seat time.”… |
2013-11-22 | |
| Abstract of Oct. 28, 2013, Faculty Senate meeting | 2013-10-31 | ||
| Making Sense of the Higher Ed Debate | President Barack Obama’s recent proposals to reform higher education have once again made the debate over the future of higher education big news. Today, higher education is under scrutiny to explain what it does and why, while reformers from the White House to Wall Street are eager to provide… |
2013-09-06 | |
| Does History Matter? | There is good reason to be concerned about the future of academic history and, more generally, the liberal arts. As increasing numbers of Americans seek higher education, colleges are under pressure to serve directly the vocational needs of students and businesses. Recent efforts to defend the… |
2013-05-16 | |
| The education assembly line | Last June, Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, was unceremoniously forced out office. |
2012-11-20 |