Two links of interest to Santa Clara University faculty

Eric Hanson has a nice reflection on his experience as director of the Core, and academic issues thereof, at:
http://www.sju.edu/academics/cr/docs/Hanson.pdf

Also extremely useful I think to peruse is the self-study done in 1999 by the university- the best statement of current core learning outcomes I have seen.
http://www.scu.edu/strategicplan/selfstudy/

Oddly, I may be blogging more while I am here in Rumbek, South Sudan, for a week-long course. Sponsored by the Rift Valley Institute, the students are 30 diplomats and aid officials, while the teachers are people like me, who have been writing about Sudan for several decades now. The course starts tomorrow. Rumbek is now very well-developed, with a large tent camp and, guess what, an internet center....