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• What should undergrad curriculum be like?

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Over at Understanding Society , Daniel Little has a post Defining the University Curriculum , in which he lays out the issues and arguments for (at least) two kinds of UG curriculum -- each starting from the same goal: .. [In practical terms] a university education should allow the student to develop the ...
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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  :-( That emoticon serves as the logo for Despair, Inc , which sells, among other things, posters with such elevating messages as "AMBITION:The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly" [Link via Orgtheory.net ]. Steven Poole in The Guardian : A review of Amartya Sens The Idea of Justice ...
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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Charu Sudan Kasturi in The Telegraph : Read storybooks & get more marks, suggests CBSE : India’s largest school board has asked affiliated institutions to include reading habits among parameters to be used in the comprehensive and continuous evaluation (CCE) of students in English, and has even proposed a ...
  1 week ago

• Mobsters and Academics: Signaling Incompetence

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  In his review essay on Diego Gambettas Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate , Scott McLemee touches on a mode of communication thats common between mobsters and academics: Rather than getting involved in running a restaurant or dealing drugs, they [the mafiosi ] joke about their cluelessness ...
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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Affirmative Action for the Future -- an e-mail interview of James P. Sterba, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and author of a recent book with that title. Raymond Tallis: Neurotrash . "From ethics and art history to social policy experts are embracing neuroscience as the answer to ...
  1 week ago

• Louis Menand: The PhD Problem

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Must-read link of the day: The PhD Problem (excerpts from The Marketplace of Ideas ) by Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard. Heres Menand on the academys attempt to monopolize not just the production of knowledge, but also the production of knowledge producers: It is easy to see how the modern ...
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• The End of Public Higher Ed in Cali?

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 133
  
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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  David Searls in PLoS - Computational Biology : Ten Simple Rules for Choosing between Industry and Academia . Michigan State University News : College job market hits bottom, though some bright spots remain . Dan Ariely at Predictably Irrational : Sex, Shaving, and Bad Underwear . Or how to trick yourself ...
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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  From Amanda Goodalls Socrates in the Boardroom : Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars ( pdf of Chapter 1 ): The reasons why presidents should be able scholars are fourfold: Scholars are more credible leaders. A president who is a researcher will gain greater respect from academic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Management wisdom from Harvard President

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  In this interview , Prof. Drew Gilpin Faust addresses lots of questions on management and leadership. Heres the section where she talks about the importance of communication: There’s one alum who was an expert in turnarounds, and so I asked him, “What should I do?” He said, “One lesson about change in any ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Zimmer: What is Academic Freedom for?

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Robert Zimmer is President, The University of Chicago. Here are some excerpts from his talk at a recent conference on What is Academic Freedom for? I will summarize the principles of the Kalven report, adding a few embellishments for emphasis. First, the focus on rigorous, intense, and open inquiry carried ...
  4 weeks ago

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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Featured link: Pankaj Jalote (Director, IIIT-Delhi) in the Economic Times : Whos afraid of foreign universities? An old article (from 2006) in Business Week by Nandini Lakshman: Will foreign universities come to India? Sticking to the theme of foreign universities, heres one about Australias experience ...
  4 weeks ago

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  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Raymond Tallis: Does Evolution Explain Our Behaviour? : "Does evolution explain our behaviour? The short answer is: No. And you may well concur with that answer but ‘out there’ there is an increasing constituency of thinkers claiming quite otherwise. [...] Tom Chivers in The London Telegraph : Internet rules ...
  4 weeks ago

• When men become a minority in a high-prestige field ...

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  ... it is viewed as A Seriously Bad Thing -- something that should be corrected. For example, by changing admissions requirement to include performance in tests in which men have an advantage. Heres something from Ireland that should sound very, very familiar: In medical courses, women were three times more likely ...
  4 weeks ago

• Womens dominance in higher ed?

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  It dawned in the West two or three decades ago -- women outnumber men in universities and colleges there, by as much as (or higher than) 2 to 1. In some countries, women are a minority only in sciences (especially physical sciences) and engineering -- but the trends appear to favor a female majority soon. These ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pakistans reform experiments in higher ed

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 500
  Sidebar : Im not sure how many of these links to Nature.com will work for you without subscription; the last two will definitely work from this story at ScieDev.Net -- go to the bottom of that story for the links. * * * The Nature opinion piece (by Athar Osama, Adil Najam, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Syed Zulfiqar ...
  4 weeks ago

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