Word: educationã
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...symposium at Lowell Lecture Hall addressed some of the greatest challenges currently facing this nation’s university educators and administrators. The group of panelists included some of higher education??€™s most prominent names, including top officials from Duke and Princeton Universities...
...said studies show that 57 percent of undergraduates today believe increased earning power to be the chief benefit of a college education??€”an increase of 11 percent since the 1970s, when students felt learning to get along with others and gaining a broad liberal arts education were more pressing reasons to go to college...
...namely an increased attention to the sciences and a stronger science education for undergraduates. Given the current structure of undergraduate education, it is possible to graduate from the College with a scientific background that is both partial and superficial. If Summers is looking to promote the quality of science education??€”especially in the biological sciences and those disciplines that will have significant social impacts in coming decades—he could start by emphasizing interdisciplinary programs such as biomedical research, bioethics and ecology and by making courses and professors at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School...
...various examples of human action to be found in foreign places or past times, the emotional clarity and insight into our nature that we gain from literature, music and art—these aid us in understanding our condition and in discerning our purposes. The claim of liberal education??€”persuasive, though by no means proven—is that there is something vitally important to life that a book (yes, even a sourcebook) can provide...
Rogers had earned two degrees from Harvard—a bachelor’s degree in 1967, and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education??€”and also studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, England...