David Wheeler,How to Pull Students Into
‘Global Challenges’ Research, Chronicle of
Higher Education, February 28, 2012 [Post
380]
February 28, 2012, 10:17 pm
By David Wheeler
Many universities are refocusing their research on “grand challenges” or “wicked problems,” including poverty, climate change, or emerging infectious diseases, to try to make a global impact. One question not often discussed, though, is how to involve students.
Paul Hudnut, director of the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise degree program at Colorado State University’s business school, says that he[......]
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On Education, Santorum Flunks History
101
Mon, 02/27/2012 – 3:18pm —
Jeff Madrick
By disparaging public education and increased access to college, Rick Santorum is overlooking one of America’s greatest historical achievements.Rick Santorum has found a new populist voice in criticizing Obama’s “theology.” He claims he does not mean Obama is not a Christian, but apparently his belief in a number of progressive policies, including formal schooling for Americans, violates Santorum’s deeply held theological views. Pandering to ignorance is not new w[......]
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February 22, 2012
Ian Wilhelm,Despite Challenges, Iraq and U.S.
Universities Agree to Work Toward More
Partnerships, Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 22, 2012 [Post 378]
By Ian Wilhelm
Washington
University officials from Iraq and the United States pledged Wednesday to deepen their academic ties, but they said there are significant challenges to increasing opportunities for Iraqi students to study in America and creating dynamic university partnerships.
During a conference here organized by the Iraq Embassy and supported by the U.S. State Department, government officia[......]
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Laura Schwartz-Henderson, lschwartzhenderson@asc.upenn.edu
Call for Applications: 2012 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
The Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and the Programme of Communication Law and Policy at the University of Oxford (PCMLP) are pleased to announce that we are currently accepting applications for the 14th annual Media Policy Summer School, to be held from June 18 – 29, 2012 at the University of Oxford.
The annual summer institute brings together young scholars and regulators to[......]
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Nigel Thrift,Getting to Go, Monash and
Warwick Universities Hope to Build a
Globally,Networked University, Chronicle of
Higher Education, February 15, 2012 [Post
376]
February 15, 2012, 11:57 am
By Nigel Thrift
Last week Monash and Warwick launched an attempt, unique so far as I know, to build a globally networked university through cooperation as well as organic growth. It is early days, of course, but the omens are good.
Why so? Because both partners are whole-hearted. We realized early on that what counted in forming an alliance was that the cultures of both universities h[......]
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February 19, 2012
Colleges Should Teach Intellectual Virtues
Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle
Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle
By Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
Look at what colleges state as their aims, and you’ll find a predictable list: Teach students how to think critically and analytically; teach them how to write and calculate; teach them the skills of their discipline. As important as such goals are, another fundamental goal is largely being neglected—developing the intellectual virtues they need to be good students, and good citizens.[......]
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David Wheeler,Researchers Develop Digital
Tools to Save Endangered Languages,
Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18,
2012 [Post 374]
February 18, 2012, 9:01 am
By David Wheeler
Vancouver, British Columbia — Technology is sometimes portrayed as an evil force of globalization, flattening local cultures as it sweeps around the world. But now some researchers are trying to reverse that story, using digital tools to save languages that exist only in tiny cultural pockets.
About half of the world’s 7,000 languages are considered endangered, with just elderly speakers left. At[......]
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February 19, 2012
Peter Monaghan,American Jazz, Africa’s
Voice, Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 19, 2012 [Post 373]
By Peter Monaghan
In the 1950s and early 60s, as many African nations shook off their colonial mantles, African-Americans rallied behind their own civil-rights and black-nationalist movements. Jazz came to serve as a bridge between the two continents and their emancipationist moods.
An influential minority of black American jazz musicians harked to Africa, while in various African countries, jazz riffs accompanied the cry for freedom.
From the h[......]
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February 19, 2012
Nina C. Ayoub,New Scholary Books,Weekly
Book List, Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 20, 2012[Post 372]
Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub
ANTHROPOLOGY
Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary by Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward (University of California Press; 169 pages; $60 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Explores the appeal of the ordinary in an ethnographic study of the wearing of blue jeans by immigrants and others in a highly diverse North London neighborhood.
Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers by David S. Simmons (Vanderbilt Un[......]
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February 19, 2012
American Colleges’ Missteps Raise Questions About Overseas Partnerships
Bevis Fusha for the International Herald Tribune
The U. of New York Tirana (in Albania, offers degrees from the State U. of New York Empire State College.
By Karin Fischer
Headlines in recent weeks have highlighted the stumbles, and sometimes outright spills, by American colleges seeking to set up degree programs with foreign partners.
State University of New York Empire State College has allowed a university in Albania to deliver diplomas in its name. But the public college, t[......]
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