Day: April 8, 2013

Let’s Stop Awarding Credits For Service Learning

From the National Association of Scholars’ 100 Great Ideas for Higher Education  *** Many popular proposals to improve higher education would actually weaken it. Faculty are letting academic standards slip–in the name of academic enrichment–and increasingly giving students academic credit for activities that are “academic” in only a lax sense. Not everything taught or learned is […]

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