Camille Norton
Camille Norton is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her previous awards include the Grolier Prize in Poetry, the Derek Bok Award for Teaching, and the Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award. She is ... [... more]
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Speaking of Higher Education: The Academic's Book of ...
 Hearing from the Guardian Spirits of Academe: Reading Robert Birnbaum's Speaking of Higher Education: The Academic's Book of Quotations, reminded me of my visit to the writers' museum in Dublin. Passing each object in the exhibit case such as a [... more]
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Interactive Teaching DVD: Promoting Better Learning ...
Author: Derek Bok Center Binding: DVD Dewey Decimal Number: 371 EAN: 9780131580305 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0131580302 Publication Date: 2006-11-23 [... more]
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Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners
Inspiration to Educators: This is a wonderfully engaging book for anyone who has an interest in deriving a deeper meaning from teaching. The book offers interesting and applicable advice for promoting the educational process through establishing a [... more]
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Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways ...
The Power and Value of "A Natural Way of Learning": As is frequently the situation, I read this book in combination with another, Return on Learning, in which Donald Vanthournout and his associates on Accenture's Capability Development team [... more]
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The Chief Learning Officer (CLO): Driving Value Within a ...
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok): Borrowing a phrase from Charles Dickens, for those involved in enterprise learning initiatives, these are "the best of times, the worst if times." Never before [... more]
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Higher Learning
Philosophical challenge of learning: This is a philosophical challenge of learning from Derek Bok, the president of Harvard University. It is also a well-written scrutiny of the American system of higher education from the perspective of 1986. (I should [... more]
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The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of ...
From Amazon.com: Though the whole idea of racial preferences in higher education has become a flash point of controversy, neither side of the argument has had hard empirical evidence upon which to base its claims. This is precisely the kind of [... more]
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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Too Little Interest in Improvement Among American Faculty Members: Unless you are a glutton for punishment, chances are that you'll never read all of the major critiques of undergraduate education in the United States. It would take a true masochist to [... more]
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Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization ...
Universities for Sale-- farewell to precious knowledge!: Unfortunately, political and industrial interests are putting pressure (although not always willfully) on academia, to serve narrow business interests. The medical schools are already tainted by [... more]
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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Too Little Interest in Improvement Among American Faculty Members: Unless you are a glutton for punishment, chances are that you'll never read all of the major critiques of undergraduate education in the United States. It would take a true masochist to [... more]
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The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are ...
A valuable and perceptive work: This book delves into a very critical aspect of current American society; namely, the exorbitant salaries of America's executives and high-level professionals, and the growing disparity between them and the rest of the [... more]
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