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...wrote papers of 20 pages or more. "The more time and energy individuals spend on any activity--whether it's learning to swim or mastering a body of knowledge, skills and competencies they'll be able to use in the workplace--the more they benefit," explains Indiana University professor George Kuh, who directed the project. "NSSE is an attempt to measure to what extent students use the resources that institutions provide for their learning and development...
...researchers hope to change the subject of the college conversation from status to quality. So far, they seem to be succeeding. "They're getting closer to the actual kinds of things that go on in a person's undergraduate life, and that's important," says University of Iowa professor Ernest Pascarella. And institutions are eager to take part in the discussion. More schools applied than could be accommodated for both the first round of the survey and the second, which will occur this February...
...ultimate goal is improving education, not just talking. Yet talk has its value. "The indicators we use to look at schools affect what schools focus on," says Nancy Rankin, at the National Parenting Association. "If they know they will get publicity as the top school for professor-student mentoring, maybe they will encourage faculty to be more available to students." Parents and college applicants who want to join the discourse can view the list of participating institutions on the NSSE website www.indiana.edu/NSSE) if any colleges they're interested in are included, they can ask those schools for their results...
...appears there is a large and stubborn minority of the population who do not share Ramstetter's priorities. Professors at UCLA recently conducted the first of what is to be an annual, large-scale study of patterns of Internet usage. The first survey, while offering good news on the gender and race front--more women went online last year than men, more blacks and Latinos than whites--uncovered a whole new group of disaffected--those who are Luddites and proud of it. Half of those with no Internet access, around 20%, were simply not interested in getting online. "That will...
...music professor and an artist, Kurzweil appeared as a teenager on the TV game show I've Got a Secret (on which comedian Henry Morgan guessed Kurzweil's "secret" device--one that could write original music based on music it had "heard"). In college Kurzweil played piano, wrote poetry and studied creative writing with Lillian Hellman...