by Bob Robinson IT’S 7:30 A.M. You polish up your term paper (actually, you fill in the blanks on the cover page of the paper you purchased on-line), copy it onto a floppy, throw on your coat and rush out the door, mumbling something about being late for work. You rush...
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by Diane Calabrese Moving a Mountain Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education Edited by Eileen E. Schell and Patricia Lambert Stock 2001–National Council of Teachers.
by Richard Lyons IN THE INCREASINGLY competitive, accountability-conscious environment of higher education, all of us are seeking cost-effective ways of improving our institutional effectiveness. Assuming your institution, division, or department employs.
by Pamela Dillon WHEN JENNIFER AND KATHLEEN Sooy were growing up in Centerville, Ohio, they spent many hours discussing politics around the dinner table. There was much to debate: foreign affairs, the Vietnam War and Watergate. They’ve shared everything, but most of all their interest in...
by Evelyn Beck THOSE OF US who teach on-line courses may not be the ones who revolutionized education, but we are among those leading the way as the rest of our.
by TAA Staff ON-LINE EDUCATION HAS shifted into high gear as the Global University Alliance, a consortium of 11 universities, announced plans to offer on-line courses of its own, in.
by TAA Staff EVERY STUDENT HAS felt the primordial dread of a looming deadline for a term paper, the approach of final exams and the lure of an upcoming party. How is one to juggle these demands? In the horse-and-buggy era, when my father went...
by TAA Staff DESPITE 19 YEARS of widely praised work as a staff editor at Physics Today magazine, controversial author Dr. Jeff Schmidt was fired last May. The official reason?.
by TAA Staff In 1996, John Ikenberry, then a fundraiser at Pennsylvania State University, was looking for another academic post. The Chronicle of Higher Education dominated the field then, and.
by Chris Cumo Peter Temes received his B.A. in literature and philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1988. After graduation he attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA in creative writing in 1989, an M.A. in literature in 1990,...
