Full Description
Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate curriculum is so vexing to colleges and universities. Their stories also belie the public's and policymakers' belief that faculty members care more about their scholarship and research than their students and work far less than most people.
Contents
Preface: An Exercise in Sense Making
Section I: Defining the Task
Introduction: It's a Riddle After All
Faculty Voice: Hard Conversations
Section II: Passions
1 I Am a Bridge
Faculty Voice: Taking Ownership
2 Why We Do What We Do
Faculty Voice: Hidden among the Artifacts
Faculty Voice: An Experiment in Experiential Learning
Section III: Adaptations
3 Flying Solo
Faculty Voice: Practice Makes Perfect
Faculty Voice: Being a Doula
4 Change Is All About Us
Faculty Voice: Nope, Too Busy
5 Losses and the Calculus of Subtraction
Faculty Voice: Look, It's a Course...It's a Major...No, It's SUPERMAJOR!
Section IV: Frustrations
6 The Cost Conundrum
Faculty Voice: Forty Years in the Desert
Faculty Voice: Touching the Third Rail
7 Barriers
Faculty Voice: Stepping into the Fray
Section V: Conclusions
8 The Road Not Traveled
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