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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

Luc Jacquet, 2005) likely remember the image of the frozen egg, which captures the hardships faced by penguins trying to survive and reproduce in their inhospitable environment—the movie’s underlying theme. In history courses, students can take a picture of a timeline and identify turning points or key events.

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

Luc Jacquet, 2005) likely remember the image of the frozen egg, which captures the hardships faced by penguins trying to survive and reproduce in their inhospitable environment—the movie’s underlying theme. In history courses, students can take a picture of a timeline and identify turning points or key events.

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LGBTQ+ attacks mount as students, allies rally to defend rights

University Business

Initiatives to establish a center have been bubbling under the radar since at least 2005, according to student newspaper records —a two-decade uphill battle. Similarly, the Association of American Universities (AAU) found in 2020 that nearly a fifth of today’s undergraduates and graduates identify outside of the heterosexual spectrum.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. They have proliferated in range and subject.

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