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In his book Campus Versus Classroom (1946), academic innovator, long-time Manhattan publisher and—between 1915 and 1926—member of the Vassar faculty, Burges Johnson offered a mocking example of the “sounds of education machinery” and of inaccessible and detached “pedagogs”: Education is that process by which accretions to the efferent speech patterns and the contentual and ...
The hands-on approach to astronomy at Vassar was shaped by Maria Mitchell, America’s first woman astronomer and also the first director of the Vassar College Observatory. She was famous for pushing her students to think for themselves, do their own research, and come to their own conclusions.
Vassar College es una universidad privada, situada en la localidad de Poughkeepsie, en el estado de Nueva York, en los Estados Unidos. Fue fundada por el cervecero Matthew Vassar en 1861 como una universidad solo para mujeres. Fue la primera institución que formó parte de las Siete Escuelas Hermanas, una asociación de universidades estadounidenses para mujeres, equivalente a la Ivy League ...
Christine Ladd-Franklin—mathematician, logician, and psychologist—was born in Windsor Connecticut, on December 1, 1847. Her father, Eliphalet Ladd, a prominent merchant, and her mother Augusta Niles Ladd, an early feminist, both came from distinguished families. One great uncle, William Ladd, had founded, in 1828, the American Peace Society, a merger of the Christian pacifist societies of
Hauptgebäude Vassar College, Stich von 1864. Das Vassar College ist eine US-amerikanische Elitehochschule in Poughkeepsie im Bundesstaat New York.Es wurde 1861 von Matthew Vassar nach dem Vorbild des 1855 eröffneten Elmira College als College für Frauen gegründet, 1969 jedoch im Rahmen der Koedukationsbestrebungen an privaten Hochschulen Vorreiter bei der gemeinsamen Ausbildung von ...
Vassar College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S., one of the Seven Sisters schools. It is a liberal arts college offering undergraduate studies and bachelor’s degrees in the arts, languages and literatures, natural and social sciences,
Luke Hunsberger’s research focus is on collaborative multi-agent systems. In particular, he is interested in endowing computer agents with intentions, as well as an ability to reason about temporal constraints, especially in group situations.
