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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview (, 14 KB, 2pp)

Quality in Instruction

Peer Observation: Learning From One Another (, 55 KB, 12pp)

  The Hunt for Democracy: The Lion's Perspective (, 64 KB, 12pp)

Heidelberg's Lessons on Literacy, History and Understanding (, 41 KB, 8pp)

  Frederick Douglass and Today's College Classroom (, 74 KB, 14pp)

Mosaics of Meaning and the Learning Resistant (, 47 KB, 12pp)

Issues in the Profession

  The Academy's Freedom, The Academy's Burden (, 73 KB, 14pp)

New Unionism and Over-Managed Professors (, 65 KB, 16pp)

Unionizing in Chicago: Big Gains for Part-Timers (, 35 KB, 8pp)

Casual Labor and the Future of the Academy (, 61 KB, 14pp)

Interview: Charlene Teters on Native American Symbols as Mascots (, 44 KB, 10pp)

Student Retention: Why Do We Keep Losing Them? (, 40 KB, 8pp)

Reviews

Sacrilegious Changes in the Monastery (, 20 KB, 4pp)
A review of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance

Competing Tensions in Today's Academy (, 17 KB, 2pp)
A review of Changing Academic Work: Developing the Learning University

Correspondence

Letters to the Editor (, 36 KB, 6pp)

  Denotes Excellence in the Academy Award winning essays.

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