Category Archives: Responsibility and Ethics

Dealing with Racial Incidents

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

March 5, 2013    Update below (3/9) Oberlin College is dealing with a run of racial incidents by person or persons unknown. On Monday this week, college officials cancelled classes after a person was spotted wearing KKK-style robes near its African … Continue reading →

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History Lesson: Manifest Destiny

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

November 5, 2012 That’s the T-Shirt that the Gap was selling, that it has now withdrawn as offensive.  You can read the Huffington Post story here. More interesting, however, is an essay in Inside Higher Ed entitled “Why History Matters,” … Continue reading →

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Why We Cheat

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

September 15, 2012 Stephen Gimbel, a philosopher at Gettysburg College, has one view about why people cheat, even those with great capability who do not need to cheat to succeed.  He thinks we’ve come to put too much emphasis on … Continue reading →

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Succeeding in College: the Work of Douglas Heath

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

May 22, 2012 The new book by Dan Chambliss and Christopher Takacs, How College Works, (I recently blogged about it here), put me in mind of work done a few decades ago by Haverford College psychologist Douglas Heath. Heath, too, … Continue reading →

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Academic Community

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

April 25, 2012 Stumbling about on the web looking for some information, I came across this webpage that contains a mission statement for the School of Theology at Boston University and also contains a set of Community Principles. The statement … Continue reading →

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