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August 31, 2010 Keeping Things Going in Turbulent Times
August 16, 2010 The Straw Man of Science as Enemy of the Humanities
June 28, 2010 The Importance of Quantitative Literacy as a Higher Education Outcome
April 27, 2010 Tenure and Liberal Learning
April 19, 2010 Getting Better?
April 12, 2010 Numbers Game
April 5, 2010 The More Things Change . . .
March 15, 2010 Being Systematic About Student Learning
March 1, 2010 The Benefits of Collaboration for Engagement in Assessment (1 response)
February 22, 2010 What Can Sustain Systemic Enhancement of Learning?
February 16, 2010 Making Intellectual Development Reflexive
February 8, 2010 Attaining Quality Education Via Flexible Paths to Learning
February 1, 2010 Preparing Students For New Wave Higher Education
February 1, 2010 Preparing Students for New Wave Higher Education
January 29, 2010 Will This Rising Tide Raise All Ships?
January 26, 2010 Welcome to 2010
December 16, 2009 Starting Something, Somewhere
December 15, 2009 How to Sustain Assessment after Teagle Funding Ends
December 7, 2009 Fabulous?
November 23, 2009 Toward a Metacurriculum on Metacognition
November 11, 2009 Metacognition in First-Year Studies
November 3, 2009 Working Together
October 30, 2009 Competency-Based Education (1 response)
October 26, 2009 Sitting Ducks (4 responses)
October 19, 2009 How Do You Know?
September 29, 2009 Talking the Talk, Then Walking the Walk (3 responses)
September 21, 2009 Drilling Down to the Department?
September 16, 2009 Education and Cognitive Science
September 9, 2009 Magical Rationalism
August 31, 2009 Changing Practice
August 24, 2009 How Hard is it to Improve Student Learning? (4 responses)
August 14, 2009 Is There One Thing that can Increase Students' Critical Thinking?
August 4, 2009 The Spencer – Teagle projects are off and running!
July 20, 2009 Health Care Analogies, Part II
July 15, 2009 Health Care Analogies
July 6, 2009 Findings from Columbia
June 29, 2009 The Major and Liberal Education
June 22, 2009 As an economy measure, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off
June 15, 2009 A Remedy for Great Teacher Syndrome
June 8, 2009 Great Teacher Syndrome
June 1, 2009 Big Goals in a Time of Big Trouble (1 response)
May 21, 2009 Bottlenecks in Studying History
May 18, 2009 President Obama on a Liberal Education (2 responses)
May 12, 2009 Ever Hear of our Learning Outcomes?
May 5, 2009 Graduate education as the Detroit of higher education
April 13, 2009 Incentives from Michael Jordan
April 6, 2009 The Endgame
March 30, 2009 Things We Don't Know
March 17, 2009 Synergies in the College of the Future
March 9, 2009 Easy Steps to Take
March 2, 2009 Andrew Delbanco on Public Attitudes toward Liberal Education
February 24, 2009 What Can You Expect (from a student paper that touches on religion)?
February 9, 2009 Silos
February 2, 2009 Does Prompt Feedback Really Matter?
January 21, 2009 Obama’s Inaugural
January 16, 2009 Educational Metaphors, Part III: The Right Hemisphere Has its Day (1 response)
January 14, 2009 Educational Metaphors, Part II: Abstinence
January 12, 2009 Educational Metaphors, Part I
January 5, 2009 No More Standardized Tests
December 22, 2008 The Intervention Point
December 15, 2008 What's Wrong with a Culture of Expertise?
December 11, 2008 No Silver Bullet but a Golden Opportunity
December 1, 2008 Colin Powell at Department of Education?
November 17, 2008 Does it Really Make a Difference to Students?
November 3, 2008 Why Change So Rarely Works and What To Do About It
October 29, 2008 What is Humanistic Scholarship FOR?
October 21, 2008 Can Just Thinking About Assessment Improve Teaching?
October 14, 2008 Getting Systematic (1 response)
September 29, 2008 An Alternative Theory of Change
September 22, 2008 Larry Summers' Theory of Change
September 17, 2008 The Elite Toe
September 15, 2008 Blog for Change (1 response)
September 8, 2008 Blind Tasting
September 2, 2008 Liberal Arts in a Slave Society
August 28, 2008 And the author is....
August 27, 2008 Hibernating Occidental Obama
August 25, 2008 Underground (2 responses)
August 18, 2008 Quotable Emerson
August 11, 2008 Teepee Arguments
August 4, 2008 Learning Organizations: Where did you say? In Academia?
July 30, 2008 What would a democratic admissions process look like? or Grandview finds a way
July 21, 2008 The Stages of Grief (1 response)
July 14, 2008 Make it New
July 7, 2008 "Floundering", he said (3 responses)
June 30, 2008 Assessment Markers
June 23, 2008 Putting Assessment to Work
June 16, 2008 Senator Kennedy's Brain Surgery
June 9, 2008 It's the Students, not the Statistics
June 2, 2008 Kaizen Anyone?
May 29, 2008 Acid Rain: Searching for Analogy
May 16, 2008 How Good is Good Enough? (1 response)
April 28, 2008 Visiting Bard
April 21, 2008 Stan Katz on Assessment and General Education (1 response)
April 10, 2008 Synonyms: Robert Goheen and Liberal Education
April 7, 2008 Quotables
March 31, 2008 Women's Colleges: How Good is Good Enough?
March 24, 2008 Two Books, One Foundation, and Higher Education
March 18, 2008 Big Questions, Big Deal: The FYE Curriculum of the (Near) Future
March 10, 2008 Retrograde First Year?
February 28, 2008 Luxury Cars and Performance Colleges (7 responses)
February 25, 2008 What Works?
February 19, 2008 Leapfrog Over the Ivy
February 11, 2008 "Undiscovered Talent," Where?
February 4, 2008 Do We Really Need the Humanities? (3 responses)
January 30, 2008 Contentious Consensus
January 28, 2008 Dr. Mammon's Amazing Money Trap
January 28, 2008 Quotable
January 23, 2008 Do You Mind Being a Pig in a Python?
January 10, 2008 Red Flag on “Articulating the Case” (5 responses)
January 7, 2008 Spearing Fish with Glaxo in China (1 response)
January 3, 2008 Where did all those Toyotas come from?
December 10, 2007 The Big Picture (1 response)
December 3, 2007 Gen Ed as Empowerment
November 27, 2007 The Poverty Defense
November 15, 2007 Broadening a Narrow Perspective: Students and the Liberal Arts (7 responses)
November 12, 2007 Virtue, Did He Say Virtue?
November 8, 2007 An Immanent Domain
November 5, 2007 On Weighing Hogs: A Quotable Quote
November 1, 2007 test
October 29, 2007 A Classic Case of Confusing the What with the How
October 22, 2007 Three “Disruptive Technologies”
October 16, 2007 What is the Meaning of “What is the Meaning of Life?”? (1 response)
October 9, 2007 Getting the Right Metaphor
October 1, 2007 Going Public
September 24, 2007 Quite Suddenly One Summer
September 14, 2007 Old Time Canon Wars in the Sunday Times (2 responses)
September 3, 2007 There's Hope
August 27, 2007 The Missing Forty Percent
August 20, 2007 Character Development
July 31, 2007 The Tortoise, the Hare, and a Better Approach to Business Education (2 responses)
July 23, 2007 The Risks and Opportunities of Uncertainty about Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education
July 18, 2007 The Big Question about Educational Quality (1 response)
July 9, 2007 Accountability vs. Assessment of Student Learning
July 2, 2007 In a Mean Mood (2 responses)
June 29, 2007 It Will All Go Away When the Democrats Get In
June 25, 2007 A Perfect Storm (1 response)
June 18, 2007 Accountability
June 4, 2007 Out of the Closet (1 response)
May 28, 2007 Calvinism, Catholicism, Capitalism (2 responses)
May 21, 2007 High Minded Hokum, Or Is This What Classicists Really Do? (3 responses)
May 14, 2007 Making Evidence Work: The Skidmore Experience
May 7, 2007 On Assessment (4 responses)
April 30, 2007 Hierarchical Majors and Liberal Education (3 responses)
April 23, 2007 Making Nice: Affective Error (1 response)
April 16, 2007 Navel Gazing (7 responses)
April 9, 2007 Won’t Accountability just go away, please?
April 2, 2007 We Don't Need Foundation Help (4 responses)
March 29, 2007 Wrong Again
March 26, 2007 Moving Assessment Talk Forward (3 responses)
March 21, 2007 Assessing the Spellings Commission (1 response)
March 21, 2007 In Praise of Literalism (15 responses)
March 14, 2007 Kids Die (4 responses)
March 7, 2007 What's happening at Teagle?
March 5, 2007 Secularization and Rootedness (7 responses)
February 27, 2007 The Current State of Assessment Talk (1 response)
February 20, 2007 Mrs. Spellings Closes In (1 response)
February 12, 2007 Triangulating at Dartmouth (1 response)
February 6, 2007 CLA Results Are In…Now What?: Using CLA Data to Enhance a College’s Narrative (3 responses)
January 29, 2007 Passion (4 responses)
January 23, 2007 Can Assessment Help the Classroom Teacher? (1 response)
January 16, 2007 Outcomes
January 8, 2007 “Empathy?” Did She Say “Empathy”? (13 responses)
December 14, 2006 The Centrality of Metaphor; Metaphors of Centrality
December 4, 2006 Status
November 28, 2006 Great Narratives (1 response)
November 20, 2006 The Teagle Tree and Ovid’s Golden Apples
November 14, 2006 Whatever Happened to the Comprehensive Exam?
November 6, 2006 Move Over Oprah: Good Reading on Student Learning (1 response)
October 30, 2006 Making the Case: Global Competitiveness
October 23, 2006 Dropping “Liberal” Education
October 16, 2006 Leaders who are part of the Problem
October 10, 2006 Do We Really Know More about How Students Learn?
October 2, 2006 Making Sense of Assessment
September 25, 2006 Not from Mt. Sinai, but … (1 response)
September 18, 2006 It’s All about the Money
September 13, 2006 After the Ball was Over (1 response)
September 11, 2006 Militarist Hyperbole? (7 responses)
September 5, 2006 On Ethnicity and Identity
August 28, 2006 Learning from India
August 21, 2006 What's it Like When a Whole Campus Uses Assessment?
August 14, 2006 “Arrogant,” the Governor said.
August 7, 2006 The Assessment Movement and the IT Revolution (2 responses)
July 31, 2006 Last Bastion (3 responses)
July 24, 2006 What to do with Harvard’s missing $390 million (5 responses)
July 13, 2006 Transference (8 responses)
July 10, 2006 On the Death of Mr. R. Shandy
July 5, 2006 Instrument Flying
June 26, 2006 A Thought Experiment: Susan and Sally Disagree
June 19, 2006 Herman Hesse and Michael Sandel on What Questions Get Raised
June 9, 2006 Why won’t this Daedalus fly?
June 5, 2006 Excellence without Shaping Souls (4 responses)
May 30, 2006 Status = Success = Satisfaction
May 22, 2006 Is This System Sustainable?
May 15, 2006 Beyond Talking about Values (1 response)
May 8, 2006 Excuses, excuses: How to avoid systematic assessment of student learning
May 1, 2006 Starting with Practice
May 1, 2006 Starting with Practice
April 24, 2006 Minnesota Nice
April 18, 2006 A Bellwether for Liberal Education?
April 10, 2006 Beyond Pop Culture at Northwestern (1 response)
April 4, 2006 Unsustainable Change
March 27, 2006 Binocular Vision
March 23, 2006 Jim Freedman facing cancer
March 20, 2006 Mystical Disciplines?
March 13, 2006 Frontal Lobes
March 6, 2006 Toga Parties? Good News, Bad News for Classicists (6 responses)
March 1, 2006 What Harvard Taught Larry Summers, But What Derek Bok and Nicholas Kristof Already Knew
February 27, 2006 The Disadvantaged Kid and Liberal Education
February 21, 2006 We’re already assessing; we just don’t notice
February 14, 2006 "The fog comes on little cat feet"
February 6, 2006 Moving to the Cognitive Level (1 response)
January 30, 2006 Implicitly it all relates to the Big Questions (2 responses)
January 24, 2006 From Content to Cognition (2 responses)
January 23, 2006 Small Texts with Big Questions
January 18, 2006 Frontload
January 9, 2006 Angry Words about Big Questions (1 response)
January 3, 2006 Declining Literacy
December 19, 2005 Underperforming Colleges and What to Do about Them
December 8, 2005 Is it the Hubris of the Humanities? (2 responses)
December 6, 2005 Responding to "The Hubris of the Humanities"
November 28, 2005 Gone fishing with Time’s winged chariot
November 17, 2005 Has the time come?
November 14, 2005 Import the Studium Generale
November 7, 2005 Findings on Student Religious Involvement
October 31, 2005 Big Questions at Boston College
October 21, 2005 Ask some Big Questions, Get some Big Answers (1 response)
October 20, 2005 No Clutter
October 11, 2005 Some Conclusions about the Big Questions
October 5, 2005 Big Questions on Your Campus?
September 28, 2005 A Question about Big Questions
September 16, 2005 The Top Colleges and Universities in the Country (1 response)
September 7, 2005 Is there an Underground University? (1 response)
August 30, 2005 A Pearl of a Poem
August 22, 2005 Paideia Paradoxes
August 8, 2005 After General Education, What? (2 responses)
August 1, 2005 Liberal Arts for Liberal Arts' Sake?
July 25, 2005 Designer Jeans and Two Other Dots
July 18, 2005 Liberal Education without the "L" Word?
June 28, 2005 Music and Alienation
June 27, 2005 I Almost Missed Their Religious Concerns
April 1, 2005 With Mark Edmundson to Dover Beach
March 31, 2005 Can Bill Bradley (or Lewis Powell) Score a Slam Dunk for Liberal Education?
March 29, 2005 A Perfect Storm Hit the University of Colorado
March 2, 2005 Education Defined: Forgetting Triumphs
February 24, 2005 Self-Flagellation: I Asked the Wrong Question
February 24, 2005 Is Liberal Education Hypocritical?
February 15, 2005 Finding Socrates
February 7, 2005 Religiously Affiliated Colleges: Protectors or Celebrators?
January 25, 2005 SATS and the Manipulative University
January 5, 2005 The One Graph You Need to See If You Care about Liberal Education \| The Dartmouth Liberal Arts Conference - Dead or Alive?
December 21, 2004 Nightmare Scenario in Assessment \| Tom Wolfe Hits a Single \| Dan Medelsohn Hits a Home Run \| "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" \| How to Waste $3.1 Billion
December 2, 2004 Three bean soup \| The Liberal Arts are not in danger of extinction \| Does small-scale mean strong community? \| Value added \| Butterflies and lemmings