Unless you’ve already had some experience with them, taking online college courses can represent a bit of a learning curve. And though studying online will require some adaptation, here are a few tips and tricks that can help make your transition much smoother. 1. Develop a Sense of Self-Motivation Some of us are just born [...]
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Top 10 Ways to Succeed in Online Education
March 27, 2012
Rick Schenker Interview
December 13, 2011
Rick Schenker is president of Ratio Christi, a campus-based, Christian apologetics organization, which he joined in February, 2011. Rick has a visionary leadership style, and has experience in business, government, public and media relations, fundraising, and non-profit management. He has a bachelor’s degree in Bible from Central Bible College, and has done graduate work in [...]
The Debt Crisis in American Higher Education
September 21, 2011
Two prominent commentators on American higher education, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, have published a scathing op-ed piece with Atlantic.com on what they term the “debt crisis” at America’s colleges and universities today (go here). Hacker is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Queens College in New York, and Dreifus is Adjunct Professor of International and [...]
Steve Jobs’s Greatest Speech
September 18, 2011
Many of you will already know about the eloquent and deeply moving commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005. For those of you who may not have encountered this great speech before, we wanted to draw it to your attention. Steve Jobs, we need scarcely say, is the college drop-out who, [...]
Some Thoughts on Grade Inflation
September 6, 2011
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune (here) recounted the difficulty that many seemingly excellent high school students (judging by their GPAs) encounter when they get to college. The upshot of the piece is that grade inflation, especially at lower-performing schools as measured by standardized tests, is leading large numbers of high school graduates from [...]
A Bachelor’s Degree in English: What Are the Options?
September 1, 2011
Let’s say that in high school you loved reading more than anything in the world. So, in college you majored in English, with a view to becoming a writer yourself someday. And after graduation, you spent a year in a garret (the romantic word for attic), facing down that blank page day after day . . . [...]
A Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology: What Are the Options?
August 31, 2011
Some undergraduate degree programs are like gateways to whole classes of career opportunities. For example, it is well-known that an English degree may lead, not just to a career either as a novelist starving in a garret or as a university prof, but also to many other writing-related fields, such as journalism, publishing, advertising, and public [...]
Einstein—The Early Years
August 30, 2011
Many of you will have heard it said that Albert Einstein—the man whose name is synonymous with “genius”—was a “bad student” in school. Or that he was possibly dyslexic, or borderline autistic, or even schizophrenic—all claims that have been published in recent years. A comforting thought for those of us who spent too much of [...]
The Great Books Alternative
August 29, 2011
Contemplating all the different undergraduate degree programs on offer in U.S. colleges and universities today is enough to make anyone’s head spin. Therefore, you may not be exactly thrilled to hear us say that there is one more kind of degree program that you really ought to take into consideration. But bear with us, because [...]
Great Teachers: Mary Poplin
August 27, 2011
Mary S. Poplin holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Texas at Austin. A former public-school teacher, she is currently Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Dr. Poplin has come to the attention of those concerned with public education in America for two different reasons. First, as the director [...]
Political Bias in the University Classroom
August 16, 2011
The Contrarian Forum has provided us with a record (here) of a spirited and interesting debate that took place on the campus of the University of Oregon in 2008 on the topic of “Political Bias in the University Classroom.” The debate is between Cary Nelson, Professor of English at the University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign), and [...]
Is Academia Still Relevant?
August 16, 2011
A brief article by journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley appeared recently in the July 20 edition of The Wall Street Journal under the provocative title of “Academia’s Crisis of Irrelevance.” In this delightfully acerbic piece, Ms. Riley basically notes the disconnect between the fact that the financial foundation of most institutions of higher education is undergraduate [...]
Ranking of Evangelical Colleges
August 15, 2011
Following up on two previous blogs (see here and here) about a recent article by Professor Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College on the state of Evangelical institutions of higher learning in America today, we now turn to the question of the actual ranking of Evangelical colleges, both with each other, and with their secular, four-year, [...]
Education or Credentialing?
August 15, 2011
In a previous post, we discussed Professor Allen Guelzo’s very interesting article in connection with “The Aims of Evangelical Education.” Here, we would like to highlight a particular issue raised by Professor Guelzo in that article. He points out that the de facto purpose of America’s system of colleges and universities has become that of [...]
The Aims of Evangelical Education
August 15, 2011
We here at TBS are in the business of rating colleges and universities. Rating a thing means determining how well it fulfills its function in relation to other things with a similar function. With respect to higher education, this means that one of the main questions that we must return to again and again is [...]
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