Learning Resources

Abstract: Book Review: Managing Diversity: People Skills for a Multicultural Workplac, by Norma Carr-Ruffino. Thomas Executive Press, 1996. 559 pages. ISBN 0-538-84456-6.

Abstract: Reengineering a faculty's pedagogy and academic programs is hard. But it can be done. Subtitles: From experiments to overhaul; What we learned; Making change natural. Pull quotes: "The students became more actively engaged and less bored." "Naturally some students don't like the new pedagogy and resist the changes." "Reengineering change requires no exemptions." "To justify investments in technology, classroom teaching must change."

Abstract: How traditional and virtual environments can be integrated to alter campus life and learming.

Abstract: Have institutions neglected a fruitful way to implement their plans for change? Subtitles: From little acorns...; Factors to remember; Multiplying the transformers. Pull quotes: "Planning theory teaches one thing, life another." "Each little problem should be seen as an opportunity to introduce new ideas and practices." "Planning may be relying too heavily on top leadership and budgeting incentives." "Implementation happens in the trenches." "We often don't allow ourselves time to think."

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Overcoming the neglect; Reconnecting with planning and policy. Pull quotes: "What accounts for the gulf between higher education research and worlds of policy, planning, and practice?" "Substantial work awaits us in examining the relation between technology and learning outcomes." "Attitudes, values, reward systems, and even philosophies will have to change." "It is time to do something.."

Abstract: Book Review: A License to Teach: Building a Profession for the 21st Century, by LInda Darling-Hammond, Arthur Wise, and Stephen Klien. Westview press, 1995. 225 pages. ISBN 0-8133-2531-5.

Abstract: Book Reivew: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. HArper Collins, 1996. 442 pages. ISBN 0-06-017133-2.

Abstract: Planning for faculty housing in a crowded city requires some innovative moves. Subtitles: Piercing the obstacles; Money, land, and all that; What the houses will be like; A win-win solution? Pull quotes: "Institutions frequently lose faculty prospects to others which have more affordable housing." "The university decided to take a proactive stance." "We looked to other San Francisco neighborhoods for design inspiration." "Where a university's faculty live surely influences the quality of that institution's academic life.

Abstract: Book Review: Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sicences, by Elaine Seymour and Nancy Hewitt. Westview Press, 1997. 429 pages. ISBN 0-8133-8926-7.

Abstract: Motivated originally by fear, the people rebuilt their campus, its programs, and its position in the higher education firmament. Subtitles: The "good " old days; Rethinking the college; Repositioning the college; The remake of Elon; Creating distincstiveness; Quality everywhere; What about tomorrow? Pull quotes: "We thought we would lose students, so we had to scramble." "When the faculty saw the drawings, they were thunderstruck." "The leaders decided to become a different kind of college." "The trustees were highly influential in the repositioning." "You can't design a curriculum for nerds when the students are not nerds." "We chose four values and made them the modern equivalent of old-time religious inculcation." "For us, a new show begins every day at 8 a.m."