Attempts to inject a military and security presence into American universities certainly have not been covert. Not only is the militarization of higher education made obvious by the presence of over 150 military-educational institutions ...
of values to provide direction. In the view of meeting participants, higher education has a responsibility to prevent such disorientation by providing graduates with the capacity to manage change and shape their own futures and that of ...
A quick look at several members of President-elect Obama's leadership team can stand as an example of how those with a liberal arts education are shaping the future of our society. What does liberal learning have to do with the harsh ...
The Bible played a central role in the curriculum of all of these institutions of higher learning with both Hebrew and Bible studies offered as required courses. (See Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience ...
With the mortgage crisis still unresolved and the advantage taken by, or given to, the banking industry by the Federal Government, it is hard for the American public to envision a bailout of the automobile industry and Ford Motor ...
According to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, her father, Emmett J. Rice, a former governor of the Federal Reserve System, told her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage." In her acceptance speech Friday, Susan Rice ...
American universities have a unique tradition of liberal education. The best definition of a liberal education is this: It cultivates the mind and refines judgment. Few systems of higher education in the world offer this opportunity to ...
The purpose of education, as al-Banna saw it, wasn’t simply to impart knowledge, whether religious or secular. Rather, he sought in education the achievement of a comprehensive moral edification (tahdhib) and the shaping of fully ...
Although preparing young people for intelligent democratic participation is undeniably important for them and for the country, this goal is not addressed in a direct and systematic way in American higher education. ...
Such interventions are not favoured by US policy, despite research from the US itself which shows that young people who have received abstinence-only education are actually more likely to experience unwanted pregnancies and higher rates ...
