NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2007-18

NC COPY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS
This is “Bill of Rights Week” at UNCA featuring the exhibit of North Carolina’s copy. Be sure to check out history, resources and campus events at http://www.unca.edu/bill-of-rights/. Lindsay Hearn and many on campus have put in a lot of work and arranged stimulating programming for the campus and the Asheville community. Be sure to join in and encourage your students to take advantage of this unique local opportunity.

UNCA ON THE RIGHT TRACK
An article in yesterday’s eChronicle reports that this year’s National Survey on Student Engagement shows that “Special experiences like study abroad and undergraduate research make a real difference . . . .” Check it out. Many thanks to Bruce Larson for spotting this!!

“Helicopter Parents Help Students, Survey Finds: Study abroad, research, and big projects are said to improve learning”
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i11/11a00104.htm

ON THE GLOOMIER SIDE
Say it ain’t so ~ especially about UNCA students, but a recent note in the Chronicle’s “Wired Campus” reports that “Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, has posted another YouTube video about how students learn. This latest one was produced with 200 of his students and is more provocative than his first video, uploaded to YouTube eight months ago, since it seems to indicate that higher education—-or perhaps just Kansas State University—-is failing to engage students.”

Kansas State U. Students Read Half of Class Material
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2462/kansas-state-u-students-read-half-of-class-material?at