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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview (, 16 KB, 2pp)

Quality in Instruction

Generation X: Who Are They? What Do They Want? (, 54 KB, 10pp)

Teaching Portfolios: Uses Beyond Accountability (, 56 KB, 10pp)

What Happens When the Dean Says, 'No'? (, 64 KB, 12pp)

Transgressions: Teaching According to 'bell hooks' (, 46 KB, 8pp)

Issues in the Profession: Adjuncts in the Academy

Priorities and Power: Adjuncts in the Academy (, 73 KB, 14pp)

Contracted, Contingent, Part-time: Coming Soon! (, 33 KB, 6pp)

Alice in the Academy: A Farce in Thirteen Scenes (, 70 KB, 13pp)

How Departments Support Part-Time Faculty (, 34 KB, 6pp)

Protecting Common Interests of Full- and Part-Time Faculty (, 52 KB, 10pp)

Reflections on the Academy

Tom Clancy & Me (Or How I Became Poor and Unknown) (, 33 KB, 6pp)

Productivity in Academe: What's Education For? (, 45 KB, 8pp)

Where Is the Heart and Soul of the Academy (, 28 KB, 5pp)

Commentary

Professors Should Take Student Ideas Seriously (, 25 KB, 4pp)

Reviews

Not for Professors Who Never Have Bad Days (, 109 KB, 3pp)
A review of The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of A Teacher's Life

The Usual Conflict, Controversy, and Debate (, 109 KB, 3pp)
A review of Constructing Knowledge: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition

A Good Idea: But It Might Not Work (, 109 KB, 2pp)
A review of Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty

When the Old Profs Are Put Out to Pasture (, 109 KB, 2pp)
A review of The Sun Still Shone: Professors Talk About Retirement

Heavy Sledding, But Important Information (, 108 KB, 4pp)
A review of Technology and Higher Education

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