Fragmenting the Curriculum; Grade Inflation; Sports and Higher Education; and much more. Get a sneak peak of AQ before your issue arrives.
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Incapacity: Enfeebling Higher Education
Ideological scholarship meets real-life problems and guarantees nothing useful will be done, making entire disciplines close to worthless. Our special feature for this issue is “Incapacity: Enfeebling Higher Education," with essays by Daniel Bonevac, Karen Swallow Prior, J. Scott Kenney, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak and others.
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September 03, 2019
** Fragmenting the Curriculum ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Daniel Bonevac
Bonevac documents the disappearance of Western Civilization and other broad interdisciplinary humanities courses, along with the dwindling of traditional survey courses. The result is that college graduates emerge with little knowledge of subjects beyond their majors, and only narrow slices of that to boot.
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September 03, 2019
** Good Grieve! America's Grade Inflation Culture ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Craig Evan Klafter
The American culture of grade inflation is a primary abettor of the “pay to play” college admissions scandals recently in the news. The political history and institutional causes of college grade inflation might surprise you.
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September 03, 2019
** Incompatibility of Sports and Higher Education ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Josh Edwards
It is possible that athletic competition could provide a sound accompaniment to a rigorous liberal arts education. As it’s practiced on today, institutional status-striving through the provision of mass entertainment sports has resulted in disastrous academic compromise.
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September 03, 2019
** Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest ([link removed][UNIQID])
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Peter Wood
Peter sifts through twenty-one new books to provide a guide for which to avoid and what you must read.
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