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Congrats to Dr. Derek Bruff

Submitted by cefisher2 on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 11:36am

Dr. Derek Bruff has recently been named Acting Director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Congrats!

You can read more about the center at: http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/

You can read more about Derek at: http://derekbruff.com/site/blog/2011/06/16/new-job-new-challenges-new-op...

Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation Position at MIT

Submitted by cefisher2 on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 7:24am

Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation

Teaching and Learning Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Applications are invited for the position of Associate Director for Assessment and Evaluation, Teaching and Learning Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read More »

Learning Today: the Lasting Value of Place - Chronicle of Higher Education article

Submitted by cefisher2 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:32am

At a conference last summer, Bill Gates predicted that "place-based activity in college will be five times less important than it is today." Noting the ever-growing popularity of online learning, he predicted that "five years from now, on the Web­—for free—you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university."

"College, except for the parties," Gates concluded, "needs to be less place-based." Read More »

New Wisconsin Academy Fellows Announced - Congrats to Dr. Steve Ackerman

Submitted by cefisher2 on Mon, 05/23/2011 - 7:01am

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters has just announced the selection of seven new Fellows. Selection as a Fellow is a high honor, and we are pleased to report that CIRTL's own Dr. Steve Ackerman made the list! Dr. Ackerman will formally be inducted as a Fellow at a ceremony at Monona Terrace on Sunday, November 6, 2011 in Madison, WI. Read More »

Number of Doctorates Awarded Continued to Grow in 2009

Submitted by cefisher2 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 7:09am

According to the NSF, U.S. academic institutions awarded 49,562 research doctorate degrees in 2009, the highest number ever reported by the National Science Foundation's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), and a 1.6 percent increase over 2008's total of 48,802.

Doctorates awarded in science and engineering (S&E) fields were up 1.9 percent over 2008, owing entirely to growth in numbers of female S&E doctorate recipients. The count of male S&E doctorate recipients declined slightly.

Click the link below to read the full article: Read More »

Delta and MATC paper accepted to the Journal of Chem Education

Submitted by cefisher2 on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 9:41am

On Friday, the Journal of Chem Education released the web edition of the Delta and MATC paper "An Integrated Approach To Introducing Biofuels, Flash Point, and Vapor Pressure Concepts into an Introductory College Chemistry Lab". The print version will be appearing in an upcoming issue of JCE.

Online at the JCE website (must be a member to view): http://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-8BimrF8P9kiBRmJ75qyd Read More »

Madison College's Ken Walz Named Wisconsin Professor of the Year

Submitted by cefisher2 on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 12:24pm

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Madison Area Technical College’s Dr. Kenneth Walz the 2010 Wisconsin Professor of the Year. Read More »

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