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On March 30, Hamilton students and faculty began navigating a new way to teach and learn, as the College moved to remote online classes in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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President David Wippman with his co-author Cornell Professor of American Studies Glenn Altschuler wrote an op-ed titled How America's undergraduates can survive — and thrive — at home in The Hill published on March 24.
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Remote instruction will begin Monday, March 30, and continue for at least two weeks.
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The low and full sound of a bass guitar was accompanied by smooth chord progressions on the piano at the Little Pub on Oct. 16, as alumnus Grant Zubritsky ’07 played alongside Hamilton’s jazz combo, led by Fillius Jazz Archive Director Monk Rowe.
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Hamilton College, Colgate University, Davidson College and Wellesley College have formed a new consortium focused on online teaching and learning in the liberal arts.
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Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate discussed his book, A History of Religion in 5½ Objects, at the University of Pennsylvania. He also published an article about teaching a MOOC (massive open online course) in Beacon Broadside.
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A few days shy of the one-year anniversary of Hamilton and Colgate jointly announcing their partnership as new contributing members in the nonprofit, online learning platform edX, two free online interactive courses led by Hamilton professors will be launched.
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Colgate University and Hamilton College, who last year forged a unique partnership as contributing members in edX, recently received a $91,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further their exploration of online learning technologies within the residential liberal arts context.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Hamilton College $250,000 to support the development and production of online offerings through edX.
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The Huffington Post published an opinion piece co-authored by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds titled “The Liberal Arts Contribution to edX.” The piece explored the fact that “the residential liberal arts model that our institutions and many other liberal arts colleges have embodied for two centuries has something to contribute to the open online platform: promoting a wide exploration of knowledge and the reciprocal illumination of seemingly disparate disciplines through critical thinking, discourse and writing.”
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