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Re: [Phys-l] Trading Research for Teaching - Cartoon Illustration



In response to my post "Re: Trading Research for Teaching" [Hake (2006)], Sam Held of the "Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau Germany" <http://www.orau.gov/lindau2006/default.htm> kindly sent me an amusing cartoon by Ed Stein that appeared in the Rocky Mountain News of 28 March 2006.

Stein's cartoon depicts physics Nobelist Carl Wieman sprinting from the colossal football stadium of the University of Colorado to the more academically oriented University of British Columbia [see e.g., Erickson (2006)].

For those who are interested, the cartoon may be accessed by clicking on <http://news.yahoo.com/comics/060328/cx_edstein_umedia/20062803>.

Has Charles Miller's "Commission on the Future of Higher Education, with it galaxy of higher education administrators [USDE (2005)], considered the baleful preoccupation of many top university officials with sports rather than academics?

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES
Epstein, D. 2006. "Trading Research for Teaching," Inside Higher Ed, 7 April, online at <http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/04/07/wieman>.

Hake, R.R. 2006. "Re: Trading Research for Teaching," online at <http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&L=pod&F=&S=&P=3810>. Post of 7 Apr 2006 09:20:38-0700 to Physhare, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, POD, & STLHE-L. That post was motivated by David Epstein's (2006) report in Inside Higher Ed.

Erickson, J. 2006. "Nobel winner blasts CU," Rocky Mountain News, 21 March, online at <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_4558192,00.html>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/ldwao>. According to Erickson, Wieman said: "If you want to have any sort of large-scale education initiative, where you're really focusing on education, you need people at the highest levels to put thought and attention into it. If our Board of Regents spent half the time on discussions of how to improve the education for students that they do on athletics, it would be a very different university."

USDE. 2005. U.S. Dept. of Education, "Secretary Spellings Announces New Commission on the Future of Higher Education," press release online at <http://tinyurl.com/cxgfz>: