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| Experience Matters: Why Competency-Based Education Will Not Replace Seat Time | There is a growing trend in higher education to offer college credit for 鈥減rior learning鈥 and demonstrated competence. In one of the highest profile speeches of his tenure as secretary of education, Arne Duncan (2011) praised giving college credit for what students know instead of 鈥渟eat time.鈥濃 |
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| Discussion Nov. 13 to look at prospects of indigenous peoples | |||
| 草榴社区 professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing | Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala. Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two鈥 |
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| Shards Of Stained Glass From Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Donated To Smithsonian | They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls 鈥 three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old 鈥 whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn apart by segregation. This week, 50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing at Sixteenth鈥 |
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| Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian | Randall Jimerson, an archivist and history professor at Western Washington University who lives in Bellingham, was 14 at the time of the bombing. The family, he says, was inspired to donate after hearing President Obama talk at the museum groundbreaking about how it would house artifacts that鈥 |
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| Making Sense of the Higher Ed Debate | President Barack Obama鈥檚 recent proposals to reform higher education have once again made the debate over the future of higher education big news. Today, higher education is under scrutiny to explain what it does and why, while reformers from the White House to Wall Street are eager to provide鈥 |
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| For Vietnam, trade with US top priority | Progress on an ambitious regional free-trade pact topped the agenda as Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang Wednesday began a three-day visit to the US, an indication of Vietnam鈥檚 keenness to boost trade with its former foe. |
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| Western Connections event to look at PNW responses to nuclear danger | |||
| Does History Matter? | There is good reason to be concerned about the future of academic history and, more generally, the liberal arts. As increasing numbers of Americans seek higher education, colleges are under pressure to serve directly the vocational needs of students and businesses. Recent efforts to defend the鈥 |
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| Historian Ari Kelman to speak on Sand Creek Massacre May 9 at 草榴社区 |