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College Letter
November 2011


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Jim Webber's doctoral dissertation promises to infuse energy into the debate about educational reform

Jim Webber is a former high school English teacher who’s come back to UNH to earn his second graduate degree, a doctorate in composition. “As an experienced teacher, I had to acknowledge that I had a lot to learn,” Webber says. ›› Read more.

 


Taking it Online

“…uh…my cat stepped on my keyboard while I was taking the test.”

 

That’s a defense of exam performance that few UNH professors hear, but one that Michael Albrecht, lecturer in communication, heard recently (although he fully protects the source). Albrecht teaches an Introduction to Media Studies course entirely online. All of his exams are administered online, so his students might take their tests anywhere—possibly even in their bedrooms with naughty cats at their sides. ›› Read more.

 


Geisha, Samurai, and the Tokaido Road, Vintage Photographs of Japan

A new exhibition at the Museum of Art features stunning original photographs of 1860s and 70s Japan, an unsettled period when that nation was shifting from an isolated society under shogunates to an open one. ›› Read more.

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