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Katia Passerini: An Italian Woman at the Top of a University Career in the US

How a student from Rome arrived in the United States to finish a thesis and in her forties  found herself at the top of her university career in America: in this interview Katia Passerini explains the organization of the American academic system based on the connection with the job market, while "the difficulty of the Italian system lies in transferring the important amount of knowledge into a practical and professional outlet ".

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Education in the 21st Century: Is the Idea of Culture Dead? Ask Google

For today’s college students the idea of education as “culture” may be dead. Why? Maybe because rapidly changing technology keeps us looking forward instead of backward in order to keep up with it? Or maybe because our fragmented society has rejected any idea of there being a common culture to transmit. Many of the books that I used to assign even five years ago, are unreadable for today’s students.

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