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.
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 the annual meet[......]
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.
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 University Press;[......]
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, the subject of a N[......]
Ryan Fazio freely admits: “I’m a perfect example of a guy who doesn’t go abroad.”
For starters, he dropped Spanish classes the first chance he got, after his initial semester at Northwestern University. He never picked up another language.
By the fall of his junior year, he was juggling a double major, in economics and political science, and was slated to take over as editor in chief of The Northwestern Chronicle, a weekly newspaper. His brothers in Sigma Ph[......]
Ten Friendly Questions for Michael H. Prosser By Mansoureh Sharifzadeh, Tehran, Iran, February 18, 2012 [Post 369]
Mansoureh Sharifzadeh (B.A. Damavand College, Tehran-Iran), An English Language teacher at public and private Pre-university centers of Tehran, since 1978. Translating books from English to Persian, awarded by President Seyyed Mohammed Khatami in 2004. Writer of English and Persian published articles. Contribution with Professor Farzad Sharifian( in case of Data Collection). Reconnection with the last president of Damavand College, Professor D. Ray Heisey in 2008 and facing fu[......]
Six Early Leaders in the Intercultural Fields. Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. (February 17, 2012) [Post 368]
[Professor Steve J. Kulich at Shanghai International Studies University and I are coediting a special forthcoming issue of International Journal of Intercultural Communication on twelve early leaders in the academic intercultural fields. Here I am providing the abstracts of the writers on these early leaders as snapshots of what will later be published as articles in the Journal. This first set of the abstracts about six of these early leaders is presented below:
Bays, Daniel H. (2012). A New History of Christianity in China. Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity. Wiley-Blackwell.
Chau, Adam Yuet (2011). Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. New York, NY: Routledge Contemporary China Series.
Constructing China’s Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and PLace in Contemporary Wenzhou. (2011). Stanford, CA: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, Stanford University Press.
Goossaert, Vincent and Palmer, David A. (2011). The Religion Question in Modern China. Chicago, IL: Universit[......]
Sara Lipka,The Secret of Success for a Branch
Campus? It’s All in the Marketing, Chronicle
of HigherEducation, February 12, 2012 [Post
366]
Silvia Razgova for The Chronicle
New students arrive at the U. of Wollongong in Dubai for orientation. The Australian university recruits students from across the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
By Sara Lipka
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
When the global financial crisis hit Dubai, many of the Indian expatriate families whose children went to university here sent them back home. But while sons were leaving, daughters[......]
