by Steven Volk | Oct 23, 2017 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Greg Wegner, Director of Program Development, GLCA; Co-Director, GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching & Learning PART FIVE: Quantitative Literacy: Signature Assignment Dialogue This week we present the last in our five-part series of Core Liberal Arts Goals:...
by Steven Volk | Oct 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sam Cowling, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Denison University. Contact at: cowlings@denison.edu There is no shortage of conferences. These range from sprawling national congresses and large regional association meetings to boutique research seminars. Over the...
by Steven Volk | Apr 24, 2017 | Article of the Week, Uncategorized
Steven Volk, Director, Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE), Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College Contact: svolk@oberlin.edu Posted April 24, 2017 It has been an unsettled period at the Claremont colleges in California. On April 6, about 250...
by Steven Volk | Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Harry Brighouse and Michael McPherson, The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Harry Brighouse, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Michael McPherson, the president of the...
by Steven Volk | Feb 13, 2017 | Research Annotations, Uncategorized
Frank Hassebrock, Denison University, Director, Center for Learning and Teaching, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Over the past decade cognitive psychologists have published numerous experimental studies of “testing effects and retrieval...
by Steven Volk | Feb 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Christi Smith, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, has just published a most timely monograph, Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Education (University of North Carolina Press). At a moment when researchers are...