Making sense of the college curriculum : faculty stories of change, conflict, and accommodation / Robert Zemsky, Gregory R. Wegner, and Ann Duffield.

Over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in higher education. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a structured and coherent undergraduate education is such a...

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Main Authors: Zemsky, Robert, 1940- (Author), Wegner, Gregory R., 1950- (Author), Duffield, Ann, 1947- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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505 0 |a Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface: An Exercise in Sensemaking; Part One: Defining the Task; Introduction: It's a Riddle after All; Faculty Voice: Hard Conversations; Part Two: Passions; Chapter 1: I am a Bridge; Faculty Voice: Taking Ownership; Chapter 2: Why We Do What We Do; Faculty Voice: Hidden among the Artifacts; Faculty Voice: An Experiment in Experiential Learning; Part Three: Adaptations; Chapter 3: Flying Solo; Faculty Voice: Practice Makes Perfect; Faculty Voice: Being a Doula; Chapter 4: Change Is All about Us; Faculty Voice: Nope, Too Busy. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5: Losses and the Calculus of SubtractionFaculty Voice: Look, It's a Course ... It's a Major ... No, It's a SUPERMAJOR!; Part Four: Frustrations; Chapter 6: The Cost Conundrum; Faculty Voice: Forty Years in the Desert; Faculty Voice: Touching the Third Rail; Chapter 7: Barriers; Faculty Voice: Stepping into the Fray; Part Five: Conclusions; Chapter 8: The Road Not Traveled; References; Index; About the Authors. 
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