The Evolution of the American Higher Education System The American higher education system is the envy of the rest of the world. At the start of the 21st century, it is a mixed system of over 3,800 public and private degree-granting institutions. It provides access to higher education for a large proportion of our population. Its diversity is extraordinary. At one end of the spectrum are two-ye...

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Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are significant contributors to the educational mission of universities, particularly in introductory courses, yet there is a lack of empirical data on how to best prepare them for their teaching roles. This essay proposes a conceptual framework for biology GTA teaching professional development (TPD) program evaluation and research with three overarch...

I am pleased to say that we have had a very active and productive year in terms of both research and education here at Duke Physics. This is my first year as Chair, as many of you know, and it was a year of challenges and learning for me personally. Certainly the most interesting things I learned came from finding out what my colleagues in other subfields are doing; this broad view – from bioph...

In January 2006, the inaugural Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Medical Education Summit was held to address key issues confronting the osteopathic medical profession, particularly the physician workforce, student recruitment, and the funding of postdoctoral programs. Building off of the draft statements from the first summit, the Medical Education Summit II addressed issues specifically related...

The MD degree is a broad undifferentiated degree attesting to general knowledge in medicine and the basic skills required for the practice of medicine. Essential abilities and characteristics required for completion of the MD degree consist of certain minimum physical and cognitive abilities and sufficient mental and emotional stability to assure that candidates for admission, promotion, and gr...

IMPORTANCE Nearly 1400 medical students enter preliminary surgical residency each year; placing some of these students into categorical surgical training is an important component of building the future surgical workforce. OBJECTIVES To examine the training outcomes of preliminary residents in a university and Veterans Affairs surgical residency and to test the hypothesis that characteristics...

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Read about department awards, news and events by subscribing to our RSS feed, and by visiting our news section [2] Check out Texas ECE's Impact Report [3] Learn more about the Engineering Education and Research Center, ECE's new home! [4] Learn about ECAC Career Services for alumni [5] Explore Continuing Education opportunities to the CLEE [6] Read @TEXAS Newsletter [7] Read UT KNOW [8] Helpful...

Remark: This handout presents some of the most important results of algebraic number theory. Although our intended application is to the case of K an imaginary quadratic field, L/K a certain finite abelian extension, R = OK and S = OL, whenever it was not obviously inconvenient I have presented the results in more generality. Some of my motivations for doing this are as follows: first, in contr...