Word: curricular
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...different institution. Yet according to the survey respondents, transfers tend to receive some of the lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they're not getting a full experience right now," McCormick says. "And that effort should start at day one with new-student orientations." Only time - and future NSSE results - will tell...
After five years of professors laboring to improve undergraduate education through curricular changes, they are noticing an unintended consequence: students taking fewer electives...
...university at large.“That kind of exposure to someone who is dealing with the issues of emerging into the art world and has created a significant body of work would benefit and motivate the student body enormously,” he says.Kline believes that the curricular aspects of the dramatic arts could also be more completely developed. “There is a lot of really incredible theater history and thinking about aesthetics and performance that go beyond the scope of the English department, or the few courses offered by the Dramatic Arts [committee...
...beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study away from more traditional, theoretical studies in public health toward practical, current case...
...proficiency is clearly within the range of all students. Those who excel in math are not necessarily those with the greatest raw intelligence, but those with a strong background who have been encouraged to practice their skills. Rather than abandon children to calculator computations in their early years, our curricular standards for math, from kindergarten to high school, should perhaps be modeled after the more rigorous math lessons in Asian and Eastern European countries. American cultural attitudes toward math have paralyzed our education prospects: Times tables are relegated to the past, students languish in an academic environment sorely lacking...