Louis Menand, author of The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, will discuss “What Every College Graduate Needs to Know” at 5 p.m. Thursday, 2/24. Menand, an English professor, asserts that universities are stuck in the past, failing to take into account dramatic changes in students and technology.
He will speak in [...]
Ben Wildavsky, author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (Princeton University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation (expected this year from Harvard Education Press), speaks tonight, Feb. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library. Wildavsky is the third [...]
What should be the purpose of higher education? How should it be funded? What role should institutions such as Duke play in the higher education ecosystem? What implications does a changing educational landscape have for teaching? These and other questions are the focus of Duke’s spring speaker series, Re-imagining the Academy. [...]
As the holiday shopping catalogs and ads roll in, you may notice QR codes included to provide additional information about products.
A QR (Quick Response) code is graphic image which can be read quickly by a mobile phone through its camera. The app then takes the user directly to a website, video, text message, phone number or other information.
