The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has published a study lamenting the knowledge among American college seniors about American history, civics, and politics (hat tip). The quiz can be found here. While the highest score, 69.56 % from Harvard, may seem pretty dismal, and there were some embarrassing scores, the quiz was no push over. [...]
Almost everyone who has taught a course on a university-level has experienced the complaints of students after they see the syllabus and what you expect of them. Read what this lecturer wrote in their syllabus.
I recognize that I have assigned a lot of reading for a seminar. Before many of you go to [...]
While searching for an article by Prof. Steven Fraade, I came across his website which has a large number of scans of articles that he has published. There are articles on Midrash, Targum, Qumran, etc.
My parents’ alma mater, City College, just received a $10 million gift for the establishment of a center for Jewish Studies.
Michael “Mickey” Ross, an alumnus of the City College of New York and a writer and producer for the popular 1970s sitcoms “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company,” will give the school [...]
In Support of Dr. Peter Enns (the following is from Codex):
As many of my readers may have already heard, Dr. Peter Enns, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), has been suspended by the Board of Trustees effective 23 May 2008, pending review ‘to consider whether Professor Enns should be terminated from [...]
On April 7, 1933, the German government enacted the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. One of its sections said that “Civil servants not of Aryan origin are to retire.” University professors were considered civil servants, and therefore this law also applied to them. One of those who answered [...]
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to make available their research to the world at large in an open-access framework.
To assist the University in distributing the articles, each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Provost’s Office [...]
Sunday, March 16, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
“Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America”
A Conference in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane, z”l (1974-2007)
Speakers (in order of presentation):
Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS
Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, and Director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University [...]
Haaretz has an article on the state of Jewish Studies in Israel.
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60:
The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
Co-sponsored by the New York University Center for Ancient Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
March 6-7, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Matthew S. Santirocco (Dean, College of Arts and [...]
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