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The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberalarts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberalarts of human teachers.”
Through their curriculum, requirements, and undergraduate experience, bricks-and-mortar American colleges and universities strive to combine the four higher education traditions. Provide more experiential learning opportunities. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
and continental European model, in which the liberalarts portion of a college education takes place in high school. Lecture and discussion courses comprise too much of the undergraduate learningexperience. New kinds of credit-bearing, degree-fulfilling classes and learningexperiences.
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