By Sherman Dorn on April 2, 2012
Lee Bessette has called for a public description of an ordinary day in higher education today, a Day of Higher Ed. I firmly believe in this type of descriptive transparency, so here goes, in a way: I will skip my activities as a chair today, other than noting that my week is looking like the [...]
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By Sherman Dorn on April 2, 2012
In February, the American Historical Association announced its discipline-wide “Tuning” project with a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Based on previous work in the European Balogna process and a U.S. pilot project in history in Utah, the AHA will be formulating a generic list of what students leaving various history programs should know and be [...]
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