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| What Could a New Admissions Test Bring? | Last week's vote by the University of California Board of Regents was largely viewed as a defeat for supporters of the SAT and ACT. But it was also something else. Regents voted to establish a new admissions test within five years. If they don't, UC will cease to use standardized tests鈥 |
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| US Lockdown Protests Fueled by Distrust of Government, Experts | 鈥淔or decades, the right has been fueling a hostility to government that has bread real and deep distrust among Americans on the right to what government, not just what government does, but who the people in government are,鈥 said Johann Neem, an author and a history professor at Western鈥 |
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| The next victim of the coronavirus? American exceptionalism | The rise of Donald Trump, and the embarrassing failure of the American state to respond effectively to the coronavirus, has proved to the world that the United States is nor, in鈥 |
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| 'The Future of the Academy' at the Association of American Colleges and Universities | Staley and others were discussing what the 鈥渃ollege of the future鈥 might look like. Johann Neem, chair of the history department at Western Washington University, said a key piece of that imagining is to separate the academy from the university. 鈥淚nstead of the universities getting rid鈥 |
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| Jared Hardesty鈥檚 New Book Shines a Fresh Light on Slavery in New England | In his new book 鈥淏lack Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds,鈥 Western Washington University Associate Professor of History Jared Hardesty provides a concise, comprehensive history of slavery in New England through sharing the lived experiences of African and Indigenous slaves. |
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| New Book by Western鈥檚 Jared Ross Hardesty聽Shines a Fresh Light on Slavery in New England | |||
| Yale鈥檚 Anna Duensing to Speak at 草榴社区 about Holocaust Memory and the Afterlife of Fascism Jan. 23 | |||
| From Global Warming To Robots: 6 Local Public Talks From 2019 And Why They Matter | While it鈥檚 hard to pick our favorite lectures from among so many, here are six that introduce surprising perspectives and offer context to some of this year鈥檚 top news events. 1. Jared Hardesty On How New England Was Built By The Slave Trade |
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| Boosting Retention at FedEx | Irwin said Memphis chose to offer the leadership degree because it is a flexible program that could accommodate credits from other colleges as well as experiential credits. It blends business, communications and public administration courses. The degree is expected to take six years to complete鈥 |
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| What's the difference between a college and a university? | Colonial Americans disregarded that distinction when establishing the United States鈥 first postsecondary institutions: They were designated as colleges rather than universities, in part because of limited resources and because they didn鈥檛 need the King to authorize them to grant degrees,鈥 |