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 struggles of a university are not the subject of these thoughts. That would be too easy. The struggles are many, not unique, frequently self-inflicted, and reflective of the environment. Universities are members of a family of similar institutions.Ā Theā¦
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¦
In different settings people use the phrase ātwo sides of the houseā. Ā Ā When you hear this relative to a university the subject is the idea that there are academic issues, and everything else is āthe other side ofā¦
Visiting with parents and prospective students always reinforces what is most important.Ā The Core Curriculum at our university is a very good one, and provides many options for students to experience a range of intellectual exposure to ideas and subjectsā¦
Ā Ā The idea of coupling military training and university education originated in 1783. New York Governor George Clinton proposed that civilian colleges, one in each state of the union, offer military training to students.Ā The construct is remarkably similar toā¦
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¦
There are many perspectives that you can take of our university, ways to see it, ways to engage it, ways to experience it. I have had, over the years, a number of opportunities to talk with parents of students. Theyā¦
Recently I was asked to address honors students in Union County regarding their futures.Ā I am taking the liberty of sharing a condensed version of those comments as hints that might be of value to highschoolers who are about toā¦
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¦
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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