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Pages in category "Lists of people by university or college" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Susan Wise Bauer, author and English instructor at The College of William & Mary; Tony Campbell, political science instructor at Towson University; Joshua Crockett, president of Bob Jones University; Dondi E. Costin, current president of Liberty University, former President of Charleston Southern University; Lynne Coy-Ogan, president of Husson ...
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, scientist and inventor, had no college education. Walter Pitts, a cognitive scientist, was an autodidact. He taught himself mathematical logic, psychology, and neuroscience. He was one of the scientists who laid the foundations of cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics.
It is taught as an accredited part of higher education. A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by a university faculty. That person will be accredited by learned societies to which they belong along with the academic journals in which they publish. However, no formal criteria exist for defining an academic discipline.
A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a terminal degree, such as a master's degree or a doctorate (PhD).
Contemporary examples are the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which is a globally used test to assess language proficiency in non-native English speakers, and the Programme for International Student Assessment, which evaluates education systems across the world based on the performance of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics, and ...
College confers other blessings as well: a chance to explore a wide range of subjects and discover a passion, to learn to think critically, to evolve socially, to become a grown-up while there are ...
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. (Jossey-Bass, 1998) Delbanco, Andrew. College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (2012) online; Dorn, Charles. For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell UP, 2017) 308 pp; Dorn, Charles.