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Commemorating Our Nation’S Struggle For Freedom: From Civil War To Civil Rights, 2010-2011 Program Series, Terence Hicks Dec 2010

Commemorating Our Nation’S Struggle For Freedom: From Civil War To Civil Rights, 2010-2011 Program Series, Terence Hicks

Terence Hicks, Ph.D., Ed.D.

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American Higher Education And The “Collegiate Way Of Living” (美国高等教育和 “学院制生活”), Robert J. O’Hara Dec 2010

American Higher Education And The “Collegiate Way Of Living” (美国高等教育和 “学院制生活”), Robert J. O’Hara

Robert J. O’Hara

Institutions of higher education in the United States are remarkably diverse in their educational purposes, their organizational structure, and their architectural styles. But underlying all this diversity are two distinct historical models: the decentralized British “collegiate” model of university education, and the centralized Germanic university model. Early American higher education grew out of the British collegiate tradition and emphasized the comprehensive development of students’ intellect and character, while the Germanic university tradition, introduced in the late 1800s, shifted the focus to technical scholarship and research. The Germanic university model held sway for much of the twentieth century, but there is …

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Unfamiliar Territory: Faculty Discomfort With Interactions With Students Outside Of Class During Out-Of-Class Academic Initiatives, Jörg Vianden, Kerri A. Smith Dec 2010

Unfamiliar Territory: Faculty Discomfort With Interactions With Students Outside Of Class During Out-Of-Class Academic Initiatives, Jörg Vianden, Kerri A. Smith

Jörg Vianden

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International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2010

International Initiatives That Facilitate Global Mobility In Higher Education, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article identifies a number of international initiatives that have contributed to, reflect, or facilitate global higher education mobility. The article begins by presenting statistics about global higher education mobility. The sections that follow address a number of “hard law” and “soft law” international initiatives that promote such mobility. The initiatives discussed in the article include, inter alia, European Union initiatives, the Bologna Process which led to the creation of the European Higher Education Area, and higher education initiatives of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and …

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