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...professorships and fellowships, there have been few instances where major donations have been made for the construction of new facilities, Clark said. The last time it happened was in 1995, when Gustave M. and Rita E. Hauser donated $13 million for the creation of Hauser Hall—a classroom and faculty building...
...that was set out in the February report. The legislation says that students in general education courses should “strive to apply the basic concepts and principles to the solution of concrete problems, the accomplishment of specific tasks, and the creation of actual objects and out-of-classroom experiences”—a passage that appears, in nearly identical form, in the February report...
...some, this idea seems retrograde. Citing a series of Supreme Court decisions culminating in 1963's Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which removed prayer and devotion from the classroom, the skeptics ask whether it is safe to bring back the source of all that sectarianism. But a new, post-Schempp coalition insists it is essential to do so. It argues that teaching the Bible in schools--as an object of study, not God's received word--is eminently constitutional. The Bible so pervades Western culture, it says, that it's hard to call anyone educated who hasn...
...never seen a Bible-literacy course change anyone's faith one way or another. "I think the academic study of religion provides a kind of middle space between those two ways of talking. It takes the biblical truth claims seriously and yet brackets them for purposes of classroom discussion," he says. "It works in a way that feels safe to both the believer and the unbeliever in the room." And people are "tired of the culture wars," he insists. "There's a broad middle who want to do something productive...
...College watched its ranking slip from fourth to eighth in the '90s as it balanced its budget rather than keep pace with peers' spending increases. "Evaluating education in a way that rewards institutions for building Jacuzzis and rock walls as much as for investing in what happens in the classroom is a system that is leading us in the wrong direction," says Anthony Marx, president of Amherst College. He and others warn of "hidden incentives," but sometimes they're in plain sight. Just this month, a compensation plan was approved for the head of Arizona State University explicitly tying...