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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 ...
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011) is a book based on the first two years of the study. It received national media attention for its finding that, after the first two years of college, a significant number of students demonstrated no improvement in a range of skills, including critical ...
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 ...
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 ...
978-0-670-02256-4. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic is a 2011 book by an adjunct professor of English, who writes under the pen name Professor X. It is based on an Atlantic Monthly article of the same title. [1] ". Professor X teaches at a private college and at a community college in the northeastern ...
Best Colleges Ranking. U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual set of rankings of colleges and universities in the United States, which was first published by U.S. News & World Report in 1983. It has been described as the most influential institutional ranking in the country. The Best Colleges rankings have raised ...
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 ...
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 ...