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...important, the public will benefit,” University Provost Steven E. Hyman said in an e-mailed statement. Technology transfers have come under fire for allegedly putting not-for-profit universities in the position of pursuing research for financial gain. The skeptics include Interim University President Derek C. Bok, who addressed the practice in his 2003 book “Universities in the Marketplace.” “Unfortunately, in their zeal to bring more revenue to their universities, technology transfer officers have occasionally acted...in ways that threaten to slow progress rather than promote...
...Bok also invited seniors to participate in a separate study. For a reward of $50, seniors can take the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), developed by the Council for Aid to Education and the RAND Corporation. The 90-minute test focuses on three major areas: critical thinking, analytic reasoning, and written communication, according to its Web site. The CLA was also administered to freshmen this fall...
Both of these initiatives are part of Bok’s ongoing efforts to study methods to improve undergraduate education, a subject about which he has written extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said that Bok deserves credit for these studies...
...Bok] believes...that it’s much easier to improve something if you have data to tell you what you’re achieving (or not),” Knowles wrote in an e-mailed statement. “So this is a way to obtain some evidence about the consequence of all that we try to do...to improve the way that our students present arguments and positions in writing...