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Academic Rigor in the College Classroom: Two Federal Commissions Strive to Define Rigor in the Past 70 Years
Author(s) -
Francis Clay
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new directions for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0741
pISSN - 0271-0560
DOI - 10.1002/he.20268
Subject(s) - commission , rigour , context (archaeology) , higher education , work (physics) , political science , academic standards , sociology , public administration , pedagogy , law , epistemology , engineering , history , mechanical engineering , philosophy , archaeology
Historic notions of academic rigor usually follow from critiques of the system—we often define our goals for academically rigorous work through the lens of our shortcomings. This chapter discusses how the Truman Commission in 1947 and the Spellings Commission in 2006 shaped the way we think about academic rigor in today's context.