Here's the top five articles, books, websites, etc., that we've been reading or thinking about the past week. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. In addition, if you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. Week in Review: Big Questions Edition touched on if Universities have lost sight of their purpose and the potential value of increased career services. The Chronicle of Higher Education opened this week with Are Too Many … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Special Saturday Edition
students
Studying the Bible Together on Campus
Today, I've been invited to a faculty Bible study at Northern Kentucky University, and I hope that my schedule will let me attend. InterVarsity is committed to building "witnessing communities of students and faculty," and group Bible studies are an integral part of those communities. With our upcoming ESN Book Club discussion of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, we'll have more opportunities to talk about communities of Christian scholars. (Spoiler! Chapter Six is titled "Building Academic Communities.") … [Read more...] about Studying the Bible Together on Campus
Can You Assess a Humanities Education?
Insider Higher Ed reports on a meeting of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, in which assessing student outcomes was discussed. I'll let you read the article yourself, but one of their conclusions was: It might be possible, and could be valuable, for humanists to reach broad agreement on the skills, abilities, and knowledge they might seek to instill in their students, and that agreement on those goals might be a starting point for identifying effective ways to measure how well students have mastered … [Read more...] about Can You Assess a Humanities Education?