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Asking the Right Questions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Is it encouraging interdisciplinary research and teaching around the dilemmas of climate change? Still, as a reader from the community college sector, I couldn’t help but notice that much of Alexander’s analysis implicitly assumes the residential research university as the model of higher education.

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Confessions of a Community College Dean

His frustration was palpable; this was a kid who went to a small school because he wanted nothing more than to be sitting in a seminar kicking around great ideas, but he was Zooming and floundering. My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a sustainability projects elective course at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, “all the students want to know what they can do,” says Joshua Cline, an adjunct professor who teaches the course, along with a seminar for juniors and a senior capstone. The class meets that need. “Seriously.

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