Robert Dahl: scholar, teacher, and democrat

Robert Dahl and the Road to Polyarchy

Robert A. Dahl was born in 1915, graduated from the University of Washington and wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University; its title, Socialist Programs and Democratic Politics: An Analysis, opened his research agenda. As he later recalled: “I began it a few weeks after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in Moscow... I turned to the final chapters during the invasion of Norway, compl...

Comparative evaluation of teaching by scholar and teacher self-assessment

Introduction: Teacher appraisal is an issue which is becoming increasingly important in educational system. The results of evaluation of teaching and teacher self- assessment can look for the strength and weakness of teaching and improving the quality of education delivered. This study was aimed to determine the proportion between the student's opinions about teaching performance of teacher s...

Robert Milton Zollinger, M.D., teacher, surgeon, soldier, and farmer.

Defining, navigating, and negotiating success: the experiences of mid-career Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar women.

BACKGROUND We studied female graduates of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (CSP, Class of 1984 to 1989) to explore and describe the complexity of creating balance in the life of mid-career academic woman physicians. METHODS We conducted and qualitatively analyzed (kappa 0.35 to 1.0 for theme identification among rater pairs) data from a semi-structured survey of 21 women and ...

F. W. Lancaster as Scholar, Teacher, and Mentor: Reflections of Students

This essay captures the reflections of several students who studied with Professor F. W. Lancaster during his tenure at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) from 1970 to 1992 and beyond. It is organized around the emerging themes as expressed by a diverse group of students in the United States and from around the globe. These students have given ...