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...OTHER PANELISTS: Richard Guarasci, provost and senior vice president, Wagner College; George Kuh, chancellor's professor and director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University, Bloomington; Cecilia Lopez, associate director of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools; Roberta Matthews, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Brooklyn College; and Kay McClenney, senior associate of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning...
...papers of 20 pages or more. "The more time and energy individuals spend on any activity--whether it's learning to swim or mastering a body of knowledge, skills and competencies they'll be able to use in the workplace--the more they benefit," explains Indiana University professor George Kuh, who directed the project. "NSSE is an attempt to measure to what extent students use the resources that institutions provide for their learning and development...
...concept that Adams brought to the fore was "phonemic awareness." Phonemes are the smallest meaningful sounds in a language. English has 44 phonemes that its speakers combine to make all its words. Cat, for example, has three: "kuh-aa-tuh." Adams concluded that in order to read, one must understand that the sounds in a word can be broken up this way; it must also be understood that letters represent these sounds. Some people have phonemic awareness intuitively, but others must be taught it, which can be done with simple exercises...
After Mike Smolyansky, 40, and Edward Puccosi, 43, emigrated from the Soviet Union, one of the things they missed most was kefir. A cultured-milk product similar to yogurt but slightly effervescent, kefir (pronounced kuh-fear in Russian) is more popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than Coca-Cola is in America. So two years ago, the men, now in Chicago, set up a company called Lifeway to make and distribute kefir...
Beyond the squabbles over the use and alleged misuse of data, there is one thing on which all economists agree: there is little in economics that cannot be viewed and used in a number of different ways. Says MIT's Edwin Kuh, "While the ostensible rules of the game are different, an economist is much like a lawyer filing a brief...