facilities_bill

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Facilities Act of December 16, 1963 FACILITIES ACT Act of December 16, 1963, (“Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963”), Public Law 88-204, 77 STAT 363, “to authorize assistance to public and other nonprofit insitutions of higher education in...

assessment-AAHE

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American Association for Higher Education ASSESSMENT FORUM9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning The assessment of student learning begins with educational values. Assessment is not an end in itself but a vehicle for educational improvement. Its...

newman university

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John Henry Newman: The Idea of A University, 1854 Introductory Note John Henry Newman was born in London, February 21, 1801. Going up to Oxford at sixteen, he gained a scholarship at Trinity College, and after graduation became fellow and tutor of Oriel, then the most...

AAUP_1940stat

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Why teachers are entitled to full freedom in research & the publication of the results 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure With 1970 Interpretive Comments   In 1940, following a series of joint conferences begun in 1934,...

Charles_Eliot

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How to Transform a College with One Uniform Curriculum into a University CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, The Elective System, 1885   How to transform a college with one uniform curriculum into a university without any prescribed course of study at all is a problem which...

legacy

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Why study the humanities? To Reclaim a Legacy A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education Walter Lippmann, 1941 One reason I want to make the gift (was) to remind young people that the liberal arts are still the traditional highway to great thinking and the...