Student differences and teaching implications By Janet R. Buelow, Rod McAdams, Alice Adams, and Leigh E. Rich Teamwork with individuals from multiple disciplines is recognized as a significant skill necessary for professional employment. While a variety of teaching methods for students in health care professions have been investigated and found to be generally effective in […]
01.01.2010
09.10.2004
Categories: Education, Ethics, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Safeguarding academic freedom
Policies ensure professors are politically correct By Leigh E. Rich Several presidents of Colorado’s state-sponsored higher education institutions testified before a joint session of the Senate and House education committees yesterday on how they are safeguarding the academic freedom of their students and protecting diversity—including “intellectual and political diversity”—as encouraged by Senate Joint Resolution 04-033 […]
10.30.2002
Media not alone in childish behavior By Leigh E. Rich We apparently all have our price. But in light of recent events in the Washington, D.C. area and with midterm elections just around the corner, we must ask what exactly the media’s role—and responsibility—is in this, our complex, multi-issued corner of the world. Let’s face […]
09.22.2000
DAM set to return Nazi-looted painting By Leigh E. Rich A painting in the Denver Art Museum’s collection since 1961 has been confirmed recently as part of the assets of a Holocaust survivor, who was forced to sell it in a Nazi-collaborated art sale before WW II. The museum is in the process of returning […]
09.22.2000
An institution of conscience By Leigh E. Rich The Denver Art Museum, in a small but significant way, is making amends for the crimes of the Nazis before and during WW II. The museum’s staff and board of trustees are in the process of routing through various committees the return of a painting in its […]
05.07.2000
Science left out cold in ‘Iceman’ By Leigh E. Rich Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier By Brenda Fowler Random House April 2000 296 pages $25.00 It is not every day a couple of hikers stumble across a five thousand year old corpse. In fact, it […]
