Anna Deavere Smith, master of documentary theater, talks about personal narrative, empathy, and colleges’ potential to reach vulnerable students and to disrupt cliques.
Katherine Bergeron, president of Connecticut College, discusses how it revamped its curriculum to help students better connect their experiences in and out of the classroom and to help them develop a broad question to frame their education.
Across higher education, executive searches are growing in number and cost. Colleges and their governing boards should exercise caution before signing on the dotted line.
Ben Yagoda tracks the president-elect's poor spelling, thin skin, self-aggrandizement, and occasional graciousness and subtlety. But he can't find any reaction to hateful harassment and threats since the election.
Paid for and Created by UC Davis Bringing Textbooks to Life UC Davis graduate students in ecology, geology, and hydrology travel through billions of years of geological time and experience the Grand Canyon as a living classroom.
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