Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan College’
From Fortress to Vista on the World
by Jay A. Halfond
May 2, 2011
When it comes to creating an international campus, America’s universities are far better at welcoming faculty and students from abroad—and sending students to study abroad—than in truly elevating global consciousness. Simply having foreign individuals on campus doesn’t make global citizens of the rest of us. Exposure is hardly sufficient. Like wallflowers at a dance, there ...
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Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff: Academic Innovation in all Shapes and Sizes
by Jay A. Halfond
April 5, 2011
To listen as many of us incessantly complain, one would think academe is chronically resistant to change, new ideas and innovative programs. We often hear the smaller the stakes, the greater the petty battles—no opportunity is too minute to stall and impede. Before tenure, junior faculty need to be protected while they build their publications ...
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Quants at the Gate: The Unique Education of Actuaries
by Jay A. Halfond and Lois K. Horwitz
August 27, 2012
Universities typically emerge as gatekeepers of the professions, by wresting control over the training and certification that is required. The process generally begins outside academe—with apprenticeships and voluntary associations—and evolves toward a new norm of academic credit and degrees. Faculty then become the experts who determine the body of knowledge budding professionals need to know ...
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