Posts Tagged ‘Trinity College’
The Emergence of Three Distinct Worldviews Among American College Students
by Ariela Keysar
October 15, 2013
American college students’ worldviews affect what they value, the way they behave and potentially how they learn. We have found that today’s students are divided not dichotomously, between religious and secular, but rather among three distinct worldviews: religious, secular and spiritual. Institutions of higher education need to understand the distinctions among these three worldviews and ...
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Unholy Trinity? Secularism Institute Renews Liberal Arts Curriculum
by Ariela Keysar
August 2, 2010
Secularism is controversial in today’s political debates, championed by some and vilified by others. So when Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., opened a center for the study of secularism in September 2005, some people worried that it could become a source of friction on campus—yet another battleground in the culture wars that are wreaking havoc ...
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Night Thoughts on Academic Searches
by Stephen J. Trachtenberg
June 11, 2010
When a university, or any organization, and its recruiting firm set out to find a new leader, they usually begin and end in a delusion. They declare their intention to find the best person for the job and, once all the sorting and sifting are done, they announce that they have indeed found the best ...
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Middlesex CC Names Library for Evan Dobelle
by John O. Harney
April 3, 2011
Middlesex Community College named the library on its Lowell, Mass. campus, for its second president Evan S. Dobelle.
Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, MCC is the second largest public two-year college in New England, with 21,000 students. The library named for Dobelle is housed in MCC’s F. Bradford Morse Federal Building in the historic mill city.
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