Posts Tagged ‘Harvard’
University Unbound! Higher Education in the Age of “Free”
by John O. Harney
October 23, 2012
Innovators and entrepreneurs are using technologies to make freely available the things for which universities charge significant money. MOOCs ... free online courses ... lecture podcasts ... low-cost off-the-shelf general education courses ... online tutorials ... digital collections of open learning resources ... open badges ... all are disrupting higher education's hold on knowledge, instruction ...
Read MoreTags: assessment, Coursera, edX, Federal Researve Bank of Boston, flipped classroom, Harvard, John O. Harney, MIT, SNHU | No Comments
Among Comings & Goings: Bates Taps Harvard Exec for Prez
by John O. Harney
December 8, 2011
Bates College trustees elected A. Clayton Spencer to be the eighth president in the school's 156-year history. Currently vice president for policy at Harvard, Spencer assumes the Bates post on July 1, 2012. She succeeds Nancy Cable, who has been interim president since July 1, 2011, when Elaine Hansen stepped down after nine years to ...
Read MoreTags: Bates, Comings and Goings, Harvard, Paul LePage, Richard L. Pattenaude, University of Maine Farmington, University of Maine System | No Comments
New Amendment: Quality Ed as a Constitutional Right
by Alan R. Earls
May 22, 2011
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools; Theresa Perry, Robert Moses, Lisa Delpit, Ernesto Cortes Jr., Joan T. Wynne, editors; Beacon Press Books; 2010; Paperback $16
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right offers a provocative look at the continued disconnect between the rhetoric of reform and the facts of ...
Read MoreTags: African-American, Alan R. Earls, book review, Boston College, Boulder, Cambridge, Civil Rights Movement, Colby College, Education, Hamilton College, Harvard, Latino, Linda Mizell, Mississippi, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, Robert P. Moses, Southwest Regional Industrial Areas Foundation, Tanzania, Texas, University of Colorado | No Comments
Rutgers Over Harvard by a Hair
by John O. Harney
October 18, 2010
If you sometimes suspect college rankings are pushing the agenda of some untold sponsor, here's a poll whose sponsor is nakedly advertised: the "State of Scruff" Schick Hydro Hairiest Colleges Study from the makers of Schick Hydro® razors and Sperling's Best Places.
The findings suggest Rutgers, Harvard, the University of South Florida, Georgetown and American University ...
Read MoreTags: American University, clean-shaven, Georgetown, Hair, Harvard, John O. Harney, Rutgers, Schick, University of South Florida | 1 Comment
Beyond the “Two-Body” Problem: Recruitment with Dual-Career Couples Support
by Laurel Sgan Kibel
June 10, 2013
“When both of the partners meet our standards for excellence in teaching and research, and where they can both make contributions to the curriculum, it’s a great way to both recruit and retain. ... It also brings us the greater richness of what two people bring.”
—Cristle Collins Judd Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College
Though ...
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