Posts Tagged ‘Bentley University’
Amid Focus on Science Literacy and Business Ed, Liberal Arts Blossoms
by John O. Harney
February 1, 2011
"Science courses belong in the liberal arts curriculum for the benefit of both science and non-science majors."
That's one of the main findings in a study released by the Cambridge, Mass.-based American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Science and the Educated American: A Core Component of Liberal Education warns that the pace of scientific and technological change ...
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Higher E(d)volution: Six Mass State Colleges “Re-branded” as Universities
by John O. Harney
July 29, 2010
It's an evolutionary fact of life in higher education. Good courses become programs. Worthy programs become schools. Schools become colleges, and colleges in some cases, become universities.
Yesterday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation that re-branded six state colleges—at Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Framingham, Salem, Worcester and Westfield—as state universities, effective Oct. 26. Massachusetts Maritime Academy, ...
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