The following reflection is the second of six pieces focusing on the importance of university research. This series was initially posted a decade ago. The following, modified modestly here, appeared on November 27, 2012. Second in a Series on Researchā¦
West Texas A&M University will host a virtual graduation in December ā a decision reached only after much discussion and heartfelt deliberations. Details regarding the event will be released soon. I know that many faculty, staff, students and families willā¦
This reflection was originally published on December 15, 2008.Ā It is worth a second look. Christmas memories are personal, deep and important for me. My familyās New York Christmases with the strong, first generational, influence of Western Europe; Cajun Christmasesā¦
This week you are reading a reflection from Jay Larson on the impact of the campus environment on the university experience.Ā Ā A Murphysboro native and veteran, Jay has a BA and MA from SIUC in history, specializing in China/Asia and taughtā¦
Second in a series on teaching excellence Teaching is leadership.Ā There are many distinctive views of teaching but, in the end, teaching is about leadership.Ā I do not think it possible to find a great leader who is not aā¦
Universities work best in the difficult, contentious, unfettered mode that allows free inquiry. Mysterious from within and without.Ā It is their nature. When faculty members are critical of administration, students are rambunctious, and complex discourse erupts on campus, all isā¦
At this time of the year, it is hard not to reflect on graduate education and its rising importance to many students in colleges and universities.Ā We send students to some of the best graduate schools in the United States:ā¦
Job prospects for graduating students are as challenging as anyone has seen in decades.Ā There is scarcely a bright light to be found.Ā In a rush to address this complex socioeconomic and political issue some universities might be led toā¦
The most powerful stimulus ever invented, used for good and evil since the beginning of time, and producing both astoundingly positive results and the greatest tragedies in human history, creating vast wealth and pervasive poverty, leading to fulfillment or failure,ā¦
In this season of thanksgiving and refreshment, of looking ahead and looking back, little is more central to our university than new ideas and new knowledge that build on the past and shape the future. Looking back and lookingā¦
Work is a four letter word.Ā Ā Unfortunately. Our sons, while attending university worked long hours in various jobs, sometimes two or three simultaneously, to make it āon their own.ā It may have come from my constant talk aboutā¦
Educating professionals was not central to university life until the last part of the 19th century. It was, in a fashion, introduced through the Morrill Land Grant of 1863, and reinforced by Charles Eliot at Harvard as the 19th centuryā¦
Over the past few months research, economic development, our library, intercollegiate athletics, graduate study, quality, leadership and resources have been addressed, among a number of other topics. The center of our University, its sole purpose for being though is aboutā¦
We are conditioned to think āundergraduateā when we hear the words ācollege student.ā When we think of growing our university to more ably serve a greater number of students you can feel the predisposition building, we are thinking of freshmanā¦
Our world is simultaneously growing and shrinking. We must change our views of ourselves and our increasingly intertwined neighbors, near and far. Change powers Our University. Quality is judged by the change that occurs in students during their time atā¦
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