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31 juillet 2015

Do We Cheapen Philosophy When We Use It as Therapy?

By Tom Stern. I teach an undergraduate class on Nietzsche, a philosopher who has a reputation for captivating young minds. After one class, a student came to see me. There was something bothering her. "Is it OK to be changed by reading a philosopher?" she asked. "I mean, do you get inspired by Nietzsche? Do you use him in your life?" More...

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31 juillet 2015

Academics Around the World Face Violence and Imprisonment, Data Show

By Meg Bernhard. While scholars around the world have occasionally faced political persecution because of their academic work, in recent years a "staggering" number of them have been physically threatened, imprisoned, or otherwise intimidated. More...

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31 juillet 2015

3 Ways a Thaw in U.S.-Iran Relations Could Affect American Colleges

By Ian Wilhelm. The nuclear accord announced on Tuesday among Iran, the United States, and five other countries faces political hurdles before becoming a done deal. But the possibility of a warmer relationship between America and Iran after more than 30 years of animosity will very likely benefit fledgling efforts to develop links in higher education. More...

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31 juillet 2015

University Experts Renew Denials of Links Between Tobacco and Disease

By Paul Basken. After decades of legal victories by smokers over tobacco companies, some recent lawsuits are being undermined by a new round of medical experts — some with university ties — who have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispute plaintiffs’ claims, according to a study published on Friday. More...

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31 juillet 2015

3 Things to Know About Higher Education in Prisons

By Beckie Supiano. The Obama administration is expected to announce on Friday that it will allow some prisoners, all of whom have been barred from receiving federal Pell Grants since 1994, to receive them under a limited pilot program. The change is small in scope, but it sends a strong signal. More...

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31 juillet 2015

Quality and the SDGs: What will this really mean for education? (Part II)

By Joshua Muskin. Arguably most vital in committing strategically and effectively to relevance in education is what one might refer to as the “bookends” of the education equation. These are the curriculum and student assessment. The curriculum is, most fundamentally, the vision of what society requires and desires its graduates to know, to do, to be, and how to live together, as outlined in the landmark Delors Commission Report to UNESCO. More...

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31 juillet 2015

Does a for-profit college education pay off?

By Stephanie Riegg Cellini. As a number of scholars have pointed out, on average, college still pays—even in light of the relatively high debt levels we see today. The lifetime earnings gains from attending public and non-profit four-year colleges and community colleges have been shown to be consistently high enough to outweigh the costs of attendance. More...

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31 juillet 2015

Free college? It doesn't fix everything

By Richard V. Reeves. Here is one solution to the rising cost of college: Make it free. That's what a group of anonymous donors in Kalamazoo, Mich., accomplished a decade ago for local students. Almost every high school graduate in the town is eligible for a scholarship covering from two-thirds up to the entire cost of in-state college tuition. More...

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31 juillet 2015

Houses of wisdom matter: the responsibility to protect and rebuild higher education in the Arab World

By Sultan Barakat and Sansom Milton. Over the past few years, higher education has been a frequent casualty of the violent conflicts sweeping the Middle East. Campuses have been bombed in Syria, Gaza and now Yemen; occupied or closed in Libya and Iraq; and been the subject of severe police crackdowns across the region. More...

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31 juillet 2015

Skills, success, and why your choice of college matters

By Jonathan Rothwell. Amidst growing frustration with the cost of higher education, complaints also abound about its quality. One critique, launched in the book Academically Adrift by two sociologists, finds little evidence that college students score better on measures of critical thinking, writing, and reasoning after attending college. More...

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