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“With regard to the proposal to create a community college, that is an issue you all have to decide for yourselves,” he told Lions members Tuesday.

In its effort to continually improve and enhance the UM Web site, the Home Page Subcommittee of the University Web Committee is collecting user feedback via an online survey.

By law, educators should use scientific methods when determining curriculum, but the science is often inconclusive, politically charged, poorly disseminated or impractical.

“I don’t want a comfortable class. I want an anxious class. You learn better when you’re on edge,” said Patrick Allitt, a history professor at Atlanta’s Emory University, on his teaching philosophy to a full house in the University Theatre during the President’s Lecture Series.

Vision 2015, a coalition of community leaders trying to turn Delaware’s average school system into a world leader in the next eight years, calls for greater state investment in early childhood education. The group argues a strong start ensures children enter kindergarten prepared to learn.

If the project goes through, it could be either a heavy-handed government intrusion into the finest education system in the world, or it could bring needed accountability and lower tuition to a creaking system that’s failing many of its graduates. Both students and schools that rely on federal money should welcome this call for more accountability on behalf of taxpayers.

"There’s a national trend . . . where universities are looking at transforming from commuter schools to residential campuses,"

"Not only (does) the gap exist, it’s growing, and there’s nothing to suggest that we’re reversing this gap."

Twentysomethings often feel like they are reinventing the wheel just to exist.

n general, businesses want graduates who know how to communicate, who can solve problems alone and in teams, who embrace innovation, and who will function as contributing citizens in their communities, state, nation, and world.