Effects on academic culture of shifts from oral to written traditions: the case of university accreditation

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The changes in academic culture resulting from a two-year process of reaffirmation of accreditation at a public university are examined. Specifically, the various verbal, written and organizational responses of academic subcultures to a request by a regional accrediting association for a written summary of their present and future activities are analyzed. The analysis indicates that the oral-literate continuum is present in every literate population as individuals and subcultures shift between oral and literate strategies to adapt to their external agencies and their evolving environment, roles and functions.

Research, Organizational change, Literacy, Educational anthropology

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Culture, cognition and Jean Laplanche's enigmatic signifier

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Jean Laplanche's concept of the enigmatic signifier proposes the relation between the reader and the cultural text reconceiving the act of interpretation by situating it within transference, as opposed to projection is presented. The conclusion thus reveals that, reading becomes not only an effective path to cognition and knowledge, but also a radical means of subjective transformation.

United States, Analysis, Works, Books and reading, Cultural literacy, Laplanche, Jean

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Business-university virtual teaming for strategic planning

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Business-university cooperation can take place at several levels. Opportunities in virtual teaming, research and development gaming and strategic planning can make these cooperative ventures much easier to implement. Virtual teaming enables new decision making processes to be developed to assist managers with new product development.

Management, Business and education, Industry and education

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