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978-0226028552. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses is a book written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2011. The book examines the current state of higher education in the United States. The book and its findings received extensive national media coverage and sparked ...
Richard Arum (born 1963) is an American sociologist of education and stratification, best known for his research on student learning, school discipline, race, and inequality in K-12 and higher education. Arum has a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University, an M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard University Graduate School of ...
Collegiate Learning Assessment. The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a standardized testing initiative in United States higher educational evaluation and assessment. It uses a "value-added" outcome model to examine a college or university's contribution to student learning which relies on the institution, rather than the individual ...
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Disengagement compact is the name assigned by educator George Kuh in 1991 to the tacit agreement between college teachers and their students that if teachers will minimize academic demands and grade generously, students for their part will write favorable course reviews and will allow teachers undisturbed time to focus on the research and publishing that their institutions reward with ...
Sabrina Carpenter, ‘Please Please Please,’ ‘Taste,’ ‘Espresso’. Sabrina Carpenter performs. Beaming in from the rafters on a silver-gilded swing, Sabrina Carpenter basked in a Glinda ...
Coordinates. 38°54′19″N 77°02′21″W / . 38.90534°N 77.0392°W. / 38.90534; -77.0392. President. Michael Poliakoff. Website. www .goacta .org. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni ( ACTA) is an American non-profit organization whose stated mission is to "support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards ...