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Are Introductory Courses A Proper Venue For Deep Thought About The Discipline?, John H. Hoag, M. Neil Browne
Are Introductory Courses A Proper Venue For Deep Thought About The Discipline?, John H. Hoag, M. Neil Browne
Economics Faculty Publications
An introductory course is the discipline's handshake; it is the greeting that either seals the deal or in varying degrees convinces the learner that this discipline has little usefulness. Given the huge stakes in forming a strategy for the introductory course, how should we structure the course? The argument in this paper is that we should encourage students to think deeply about the discipline. In other words, we should encourage an appreciation for the complexity of the vocabulary, the underlying assumptions, and the kinds of evidence relied on in the discipline in question.
Rare, But Promising, Involvement Of Faculty In Residence Hall Programming, M. Neil Browne, Spencer Headworth, Kandice Saum
Rare, But Promising, Involvement Of Faculty In Residence Hall Programming, M. Neil Browne, Spencer Headworth, Kandice Saum
Economics Faculty Publications
Students regularly encounter faculty in classrooms. Student affairs personnel interact with students in the main when students are beyond the classroom. Both groups are pledged to encourage student development, but they rarely collaborate. What are the reasons for this divided effort? How can the separate spheres of faculty and student affairs work together such that learners can benefit from the partnership? This article reports on the insights gained from the five-year experience of two senior faculty who lived in a residence hall and endeavored to encourage greater academic presence in residence hall programming. In the interest of encouraging additional collaboration …
Advertising To Children And The Commercial Speech Doctrine: Political And Constitutional Limitations, M. Neil Browne, Lauren Frances Biksacky, Alex Frondorf
Advertising To Children And The Commercial Speech Doctrine: Political And Constitutional Limitations, M. Neil Browne, Lauren Frances Biksacky, Alex Frondorf
Economics Faculty Publications
For the past forty years, efforts to limit or prohibit advertising to children have faced a powerful combination of political and constitutional limitations. The political will and pressure have not been exerted to enact and enforce meaningful regulations that curtail, in all media, the proliferation of advertising directed at children. Such advertising exploits the very market failures that governments around the world, including our own, seek to minimize. Yet even when restrictions on advertising are enacted, they are inevitably met with constitutional challenges. These two limitations - political and constitutional - rest, however, on faulty assumptions about human behavior in …