But the modern university teaches follow-through only by accident, forcing students to take tedious classes and then rewarding those who don't drop out.
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It was Brad Delong who first explained to me the woeful technological structure of the modern university (not explained just to me, wrote it on his blog).
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In 1965 Lewis Coser, an eminent sociologist, argued that the modern university had become an indispensable part of a civilised society, a place that provides salaried intellectuals with a milieu conducive to the exchange of ideas and, uniquely, a licence to disagree with those who pay them.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.
Today, the pair's modern counterparts in the university city continue to work on DNA's complexities.
What remains constant is the pleasure students have always taken in decorating their rooms when they arrive at university, says Dr Jane Hamlett, a lecturer in modern British history at the university's department of history.
Senior Lecturer of Modern Languages at the University of Kent, Paul Coggle, described how Estuary English had now spread to most of South-East England.
Working with a team of scholars, they translated both works (the second one turned up, go figure, in the library at the University of Texas) into present-day Spanish and modern math formulas.
Fewer students are choosing to take only modern languages at university, the report said.
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The nano science facility that has the sleek, modern look of Silicon Valley compared to the concrete-and-steel of the University at Albany main campus is expanding again.
Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
He said Amber had been forced to put her ambitions to become a modern languages teacher on hold as the appropriate university courses were not offered in Chile.
Genetic analysis led by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University found that the woman closely resembled modern-day Southern Europeans and had many genetic differences from three hunter-gatherers living at the same time in Sweden and buried nearby.
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At the other end of the spectrum are proponents of modern portfolio theory and efficient markets, academicians like Burton Malkiel of Princeton University and Eugene Fama of The University of Chicago.
This is a view put forward originally by Charles Darwin, but revived in modern times by the biologists David Sloan Wilson, at Bimghamton University, and Edward O.
Derek Bickerton, a linguist at the University of Hawaii, argues that if pre-modern humans had had language, this would have given them the ability to share complex information, and to co-operate in sophisticated ways.
Two surveys released last year by the American Jewish Committee and Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies showed that three quarters of American Jews care deeply about Israel and that Israel is an important part of their Jewish identity.
Tom Shanks, Professor of Physics at the University of Durham, UK, thinks the experiment is a modern version of Sir Arthur Eddington's historic eclipse expedition.
Paul Seabright, an economist at the University of Toulouse in France, observes that trust in a modern economy has evolved to the miraculous point where people give complete strangers sums of money they would not dream of entrusting to their next-door neighbours.
As for young American Jews, according to a study published in August 2010 by Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, the ratio of young American Jews who feel attached to Israel - while lower than that of older Jews -- has remained constant over the past twenty years.
Armin Heinen, professor of history at Aachen's university, says modern German identity was built on reconciliation with the French Erbfeind, or hereditary enemy.
Creating a world-class modern university needs flexibility in hiring, promotion and pay rather than the rigid rules that are traditional in the region.
For example, by far the most famous tree scientist of modern times operates out of Hsu (Humboldt State University) in an endowed chair under my name and money.
Professor Linda Woodhead, professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University and co-host of the Westminster Faith Debates, said modern medicine advances had seen a change in people's attitudes about death.
In "Ivy Style: Radical Conformists, " out last month from Yale University Press, fashion scholar Patricia Mears traces the history of the modern sport coat to the interwar years, when Princetonians liberated tweed jackets from their matching bottoms.
But as I said in my speech to the Open University, to get real accountability we need to draw upon traditional means as well as modern.
Indeed, Dr Mike Petraglia at the University of Oxford has uncovered tools in India that he says could have been made by modern humans before 60, 000 years ago.
Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.
"The stalactites and stalagmites from these caves are a way of looking back in time to see how warm periods similar to our modern climate affect how far permafrost extends across Siberia, " said Dr Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford.
The Welsh university sector as a whole has grown and become stronger necessitating new ways of working to meet modern challenges.
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