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Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits (NY Times 9-6-19)
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies).
At UMass, top rung remains out of reach. Hampered by years of cuts, Amherst campus struggles to draw ranking Bay State students (Boston Globe 9-5-10)
Despite improvement efforts that date back generations, UMass Amherst remains firmly lodged among the nation’s second-tier state schools, depleted by years of budget cuts. The average SAT scores of incoming students, freshman retention rates, and graduation rates lag behind those of its peers. The number of tenured faculty has plummeted. And the school’s endowment is one of the lowest in the country for a public flagship school.
Where Columbia Beats Harvard (Wall Street Journal 9-3-10)
In their football rivalry that dates back to 1877, Harvard holds a commanding advantage over Columbia, the Crimson leading 53 to 14. Yet in a contest between their undergraduate curricula, Columbia has more than held its own.
Boys 'being held back by women teachers' as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom (UK Daily Mail 9-1-10)
From the article:
Women teachers are holding back boys by reprimanding them for typically male behaviour, according to a study out today.
They are reinforcing stereotypes that boys are ‘silly’ in class, refuse to ‘sit nicely like the girls’ and are more likely to indulge in ‘schoolboy pranks’.
Women teachers may also unwittingly perpetuate low expectations of boys’ academic achievement and encourage girls to work harder by letting them think they are cleverer.
Book Review of Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus (Wall Street Journal 8-31-10)
The Humanities for Love, Not Money (NY Times 8-25-10)
by Patricia Cohen
WHEN the renowned educators Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins first decided to expand their Great Books course beyond the University of Chicago’s walls, they recruited some of Chicago’s most prominent businessmen. In what was called the Fat Men’s Great Books Course, the executives and their wives started meeting every other Friday evening in the fall of 1943 to discuss Plato, Shakespeare and Goethe.
The Lindenwood Philosophy Department is a healthy and growing department that now has three professors with diverse specialities, offering students the opportunity to sample the world of philosophy in many interesting ways.
The following are some useful links related to philosophy.
Philosophy courses currently offered at Lindenwood University.
The philosophy program offers a major in philosophy, a minor in philosophy, and a minor in Christian philosophy. The philosophy major requires 36 hrs. The philosophy minor and the minor in Christian philosophy require 18 hrs. Courses are from the following list.