Learning University

In an article, “The Learning College:  Both Learner and Learning Centered,” Terry O’Banion says that 
It is not enough to make students feel good about the environment on the campus or the services they receive.  It is not enough to impress students with the dazzling performance of great lecturers.  It is not enough to provide [...]

Professional Faculty Development

Professional faculty development is a way for a university to engage in continuous re-formation, even trans-formation.  It can be an agent or catalyst for individual and collegial growth, both personal and professional. Since many college and university faculty were not specifically education in how people learn and in how to teach for the best learning [...]

Memories of the Future

My impression is that schools try to out do each other and out do themselves in constructing facilities and programs to attract and retain students. However, in the process a central (and exquisitely simple) thing may not be given the laser-focus it deserves because it is so hidden and so obvious. That is, to attract [...]