http://chronicle.com/section/Curriculum/11/ News :: Faculty :: Curriculum Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:58:02 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130461/ http://chronicle.com/article/Curriculum-Proposals-at/130461/ A committee at the university has recommended revisions to the curriculum that will help students be lifelong learners and adapt to a changing world.

]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:55:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130275/ http://chronicle.com/article/Democracy-Faces-a-Crucible/130275/ A national task force calls on colleges to renew their commitment to civic education at a time when higher education is talked about chiefly as a means of job training.

]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129987/ http://chronicle.com/article/CUNY-Proposes-a-Leaner-Core/129987/ Students would need to take 42 core credits, 12 of which will be chosen by their individual campus. Some faculty think the plan is too flexible to ensure breadth.

]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:59:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129709/ http://chronicle.com/article/Students-of-Professor-Who/129709/ A medical dean at George Washington U. says the students learned the material through other work, even though their instructor didn't teach two online modules.

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:17:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129489/ http://chronicle.com/article/At-Babson-New-Courses-Begin/129489/ A college that embraced entrepreneurship long before it became fashionable applies the start-up spirit to its own curriculum.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129420/ http://chronicle.com/article/Art-Schools-Build-New/129420/ Amid widespread change in their fields, schools and college programs cast a fresh eye on what artists will need to know from now on.

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129259/ http://chronicle.com/article/Project-Will-Pay-for-8-States/129259/ The three-year, $2.2-million effort seeks to help the states chart a path by which they can raise, and document, students' level of achievement.

]]> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129134/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Improving-Higher-Education/129134/ Differences in definitions of quality lead to new debates over the importance of teaching practical skills versus specific knowledge.

]]> Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/128869/ http://chronicle.com/article/Gerontology-Programs-Get/128869/ Given demographic inevitability, one would expect the field to be booming. But there's the image problem to get past.

]]> Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/128781/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Culture-of-Some-Colleges/128781/ Certain campuses seem to nudge female students into stereotypically female fields and men into male ones, says a paper at the American Sociological Association's meeting.

]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/128086/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Challenge-of-Putting-a/128086/ Union College is one of many liberal-arts institutions seeking to improve students' ethical thinking. The hard part is gauging whether it's working.

]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/126512/ http://chronicle.com/article/Law-Schools-Revamp-Their/126512/ As law firms demand to get out of the training business, academic programs focus more on simulations.

]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125287/ http://chronicle.com/article/At-a-Busy-Community-College-a/125287/ At Salt Lake Community College, an eight-week semester, with classes twice as long, runs alongside the normal 16-week one.

]]> Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65809/ http://chronicle.com/article/New-Report-From-Carnegie/65809/ On the 100th anniversary of the Flexner Report, the foundation updates its suggestions for medical schools.

]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65176/ http://chronicle.com/article/Historians-Protest-Texas/65176/ They worry that the education board wants to minimize Thomas Jefferson's contributions, elevate Jefferson Davis, and diminish the role of Hispanics and women.

]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65047/ http://chronicle.com/article/More-Students-Taking-Arabic/65047/ The government has pushed colleges to strengthen "critical" language programs, and the number of Arabic majors has increased 300 percent— to 57.

]]> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64867/ http://chronicle.com/article/When-Budget-Cuts-Loom/64867/ Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:03:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64851/ http://chronicle.com/article/Having-a-Multitude-of-Small/64851/ Public institutions often have programs that award fewer than seven degrees a year, The Chronicle has found. That can draw the unwanted attention of budget cutters.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64850/ http://chronicle.com/article/Disappearing-Disciplines-/64850/ Struggles to decide which small programs fall to the budget ax put faculty-administration relations to the test.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64869/ http://chronicle.com/article/Audio-Why-Colleges-Must-Train/64869/ Sen. Ted Kaufman, the Senate's only professionally trained engineer, says colleges and the government must do more to encourage students to pursue degrees in engineering.

]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:20:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64379/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Anthrozoology-the/64379/ A course at Smith College focuses on the interactions between animals and their humans.

]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/64302/ http://chronicle.com/article/Service-Learning-Becomes-the/64302/ Faculty members were hesitant at first, but the university now offers more than 130 community-service courses focused on helping New Orleans rebuild.

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/63828/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Cutting-Programs/63828/ Financially strapped institutions take into consideration feedback from professors and even alumni who rise up to protect what might need to be shorn.

]]> Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/63759/ http://chronicle.com/article/Journal-Proposes-Major-Changes/63759/ "Academic Medicine" suggests reducing the traditional four-year curriculum by a year and expanding the number of for-profit medical schools.

]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:18:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/63718/ http://chronicle.com/article/Educators-Mull-How-to-Motivate/63718/ Speakers at the Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting urged institutions to take strong, swift measures to elevate the quality of instruction.

]]> Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/63694/ http://chronicle.com/article/Business-Curricula-Need-a/63694/ Programs in undergraduates' most popular major should do more to help students become morally engaged and intellectually agile, the researchers said.

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