Traditions of American Education

American Higher Education

Barry Munitz, President and Chief Executive Officer, J. Paul Getty Trust: Information technology will profoundly influence both the content and the delivery system for traditional colleges and universities. The challenge to translate the content—that mountain of data arriving so rapidly—into accurate and useful information and then into knowledge and wisdom will test everyone’s talent and energ...

Fifty Years of American Education

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Comparative study of nursing doctoral education system in Iran and Tennessee American universities

Introduction: Improving the quality and dynamism of nursing higher education programs requires continuous evaluation and quantitative and qualitative studies and applying the results of evaluation in practice. Neglecting the quality of higher education and the efficiency of graduates, especially doctoral education, is one of the major concerns of the health education system. Therefore, this stu...

Sporting Traditions

This book represents a delightful collection of essays on Welsh sport, in particular the Welsh sport of rugby union football and its place in Welsh society. Gareth Williams has provided sports historians with some of the best accounts of sport in the Principality over the years and 1905 And All That is no exception. Avid readers of sports history will recognise some of the articles, however, si...