from Inside Higher Ed U of California Criticized for Extending Transfer Deadline December 14, 2015 The University of California announced early this month that transfer applicants to
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
And then there were …
From Inside Higher Ed College of New Rochelle Goes Completely Coed December 9, 2015 Another women’s college has decided to go completely coeducational. The College
Will Free Community College Put HBCUs Out of Business?
My colleague Sara Goldrick-Rab wrote a post saying “Short answer: No.” But notes it might be because “HBCUs (both public and private) are allocated $10Billion
How Does This Figure in Our Strategic Plans?
Our institution is basically a California school (~82% UG, ~83% G). Four other states send us a over 9 undergrads but all the rest are
Take "writing across the curriculum" seriously and reduce messy GE subsidies
Imagine an institution in which the English department offers each year 13 or so sections of a “rhetoric and composition” course enrolling about 200 students
1. Essentials of liberal arts
What are the essential components of a quality liberal arts education, and how can we ensure that we remain, first and foremost, a first-rate liberal
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