The dispute was partly responsible for the departure of former Chancellor Michael Orenduff. California's Improved Financial Aid Program State reverses national trend toward merit scholarships Teaching in a Wired World Maine learns the lessons of distance education Interview Robert McCabe Robert McCabe is a senior fellow with the League for Innovation in the Community College and is former president of Miami-Dade Community College. He is a foun-ding board member of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. McCabe was interviewed by Patrick M. Callan, president of the Center.
English majors are to be forgiven if they prefer to dwell on the symbolism.
The class is called Designing the Future, and it serves as the introduction to Smith's new undergraduate engineering program. It is literally a course in mechanical and electrical design. But it also marks the first engineering track at an all-women college, and only the third at a top liberal arts school. Symbolism is, in fact, a part of the equation. At capacity, it is projected to produce only 25 graduates per year, beginning some time after 2004.