The top-level managers who brought down companies such as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom were, for the most part, nothing if they were not smart and well-educated. Yet one cannot help feeling ...

Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi announced that Suad Joseph, distinguished professor of anthropology and women's studies, has accepted an appointment as a faculty adviser to the chancellor, to serve as a ...

Today, technological innovation and a rampant ideology of self seem to conspire against the acquisition of wisdom, writes Peter Starr, yet we still can teach it. In October of 1979, Pulitzer ...

Two weeks ago, we examined the transformation of higher education in the next five years. Today, we look at how this transformation will shift the emphasis of our teaching. As with the prior column, ...

Koo said she could only do half of the things that needed to be done if her husband was not there to do his own share. “My kids would have enjoyed only half of the world if they were learning only ...

It is not the nature of man to accept criticism from anyone; everyone is born a know it all and free advice is abhorred universally. Recalling yesteryears, this was definitely not the norm, there used ...

Professor Suad Joseph receives a hug from her dean, George R. Mangun, during the announcement that she won the 2014 teaching prize. In her garden, University of California, Davis, anthropologist Suad ...

Certain things that I learned from my fifth grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Alejandrina Casin, remain vivid in my mind to this date. I still clearly recall little specifics I first heard from her ...