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Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship
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No reform effort in American higher education in the last twenty years has been more important than the attempt to enlarge the dominant understanding of the scholarly work of facult–what counts as scholarship. Faculty Priorities Reconsidered assesses the impact of this widespread initiative to realign the priorities of the American professoriate with the essential missions of the nation’s colleges and universities: to redefine faculty roles and restructure reward s… More >>
Faculty Priorities Reconsidered: Rewarding Multiple Forms of Scholarship
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Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
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After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside… More >>
Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
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A Student’s Guide To Religious Studies
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The study of religion in American higher education is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the United States’ most prestigious universities, religious studies is a relatively recent addition to the liberal arts curriculum. As a result, students often take courses in religion with expectations that exceed what professors can actually … More >>
A Student’s Guide To Religious Studies
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