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Fifty-four industrial engineering seniors were honored this spring for two semesters of work solving real-world problems alongside industry partners.
Ir_Stone_istock/getty images plus Not long ago, heading out to an academic conference where I was scheduled to take part in a panel examining “alternative” careers for humanities degree holders and looking for airplane reading, I grabbed from my bookshelf three aging publications: Getting a Job Outside the Academy: A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association (1982), and Humanities Ph.D.s and Nonacademic Careers: A Guide for Faculty Advisers (1983). After I got home, I retrieved an even earlier publication, Rita Jacobs’s in the Humanities (1977). Each of these pu...
Percentage of students with advisers who listened, respected and cared What makes for successful advising? Listening, respect and caring, according to new data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, which Indiana University’s School of Education Center for Postsecondary Research administers annually. “A trusting and respectful rapport with an advisor is essential for new students adjusting to and navigating a complex institution and for seniors looking to maximize opportunities within their major,” researchers wrote of data gleaned from the 2020 survey’s module on academic ad...
Yale, harvard and the university of chicago's schools of law. among their faculty advisers was antonin scalia, a future supreme court justice. the group advances two specific legal theories. one, originalism. in the words of justice scalia, the constitution is not living but dead. the idea is that the meaning doesn't change with the times. anything the founders did not include, say abortion or gay marriage, should not be considered. the other, tex iualism. laws are interpreted only on the text, not the intent of the authors. problem, they were addressing the conditions or the times. the societ...