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Universe of the Master’s
The growth area in graduate education is in master’s degrees. The number of master’s degrees awarded in the United States has increased 41 percent over the last 25 years, while PhD degrees have increased only
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What’s Fair to Compare?
Who is Number 1? We are fascinated with this question. What is the best pizza, the best movie, the best TV show? In sports, winning and losing is part of the game and in most
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Banking on Psychological Principles
Universities are businesses, although we academics do not like to think of them as such. However, we are not in business to make a profit, but rather to produce teaching and research. Thus, our bottom
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Come Together
I thought I would write about psychology from the point of view of a provost, since I am in the strange position of being both president of APS and a provost at the same time.
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Let Me Introduce You…
It’s a new school year and at campuses all across the country, record numbers of students are taking psychology courses. And most of them are taking introductory psychology. By far the most popular course on
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College Professors in High School Classrooms
He’s new at the game. Bill Greenough of the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign may be a novice at addressing high school science classes. But this APS Fellow is a fast learner. His first try with the
