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...seven years, there has been an undeniable interest among college-bound students to study in an urban area,” he said. According to Franek, NYU indicates “very clearly” that “the student experience won’t end in the classroom. New York City would be the classroom.” While the top ten “dream schools” on the survey included six Ivies and Stanford, NYU’s popularity can be partly explained by its relatively less competitive admission credentials. “Generally, admission...
...Claudia Koonz, professor of history at Duke University. A growing number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with the liberators of Buchenwald." Another adjustment to teaching Generation M: professors are assigning fewer full-length books and more excerpts and articles. (Koonz, however, was stunned when a student matter...
...most legitimate reason to build a center specifically for women—dubious or not—is to educate students of both genders about issues facing women today. Finding a moderate voice, competing with men in the classroom and in the workforce, reconciling motherhood and careers, and learning to coexist with men, and even women, of different viewpoints—these should form the agenda of the center...
...Wednesdays, the first-year cadets start the morning in a small classroom decorated with posters emblazoned with words like integrity, honor, and excellence. There are 15 cadets from different colleges, as well as an MIT pre-frosh applying for an ROTC scholarship. Four of the cadets are women, and it appears to be a racially diverse crew. Captain Brian Sullivan, who teaches the cadets military science, sits on a desk and sips coffee as he clicks through slides of weapons: M-4s, night vision devices, different kinds of grenades. “Look through the optical device here...you basically...
Outside the classroom, Goldman has served as president of the New England Society of Pathologists and the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the organization that presented him with the Distinguished Pathologist Award. He is currently vice chairman of pathology at BIDMC...