E-Colleague

George Fox is highlighted in a recent CCCU eAdvance magazine article, “Putting Web 2.0 to Work,” written by Rob Felton (Marketing and Communications). The article is available at:
cccu.org/news/parentNav.Feature,newsID.573/ns_news_detail.asp.

Jim Foster (Provost) was quoted in the Monday, Oct. 8, issue of the Washington Post, in an article, “Charting Courses to Make Subjects Click,” that discussed the unconventional courses that engage students in the learning process better than traditionally conceived classes. “It might seem silly to those outside academia that a student can take ‘Baseball in American History’ instead of ‘History of the U.S.,’” Jim says. “But history is a methodology, not just content, and the methods of historians can be learned in the baseball course.”

A course titled “Detective Fiction” isn’t exactly the equivalent of “British Literature to 1660,” but literary criticism is taught in both courses, and that may be the “most important teaching goal, more important than specific content,” he said.

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