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Chronicle of Higher Education - Opinion Piece

January 19, 2012

Thomas A. Kazee, president, University of Evansville, writes: We often fail to share what could be one of the most important contributions to the life of the community: the remarkable collective intellectual capital of our faculties. The aggregate intellectual capital represented by a faculty at an American college, even a small one, is vast: Economists, biologists, philosophers, engineers, and historians are teaching and researching the most pressing issues of the day. Yet in my experience, we too seldom take advantage of this resource in an intentional and systematic way.

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