Learning Resources

Abstract: Book review: The Contemplative Practitioner: Meditation in Education and the Professions, by John Miller. Bergin & Harvey. 161 pages. ISBN 0-89789-401-4.

Abstract: Book review: organizational and Technologiacl Startegies for Higher Education in the Information Age, by David Ernst, Richard Katz, and John Sack. CAUSE Professional Paper Series, No. 13, 1995. 25 pages.

Abstract: Book review: The Art and Politics of College teaching, edited by R. McLaran Sawyer, Keith Prichard, adn Karl Hostetler. Peter Lang, 1992. 344 pages. ISBN 0-8204-1684-3 The New Faculty Memeber: Supporting and Fostering Professional Development, by Robert Boice. Jossey-Bass, 1993. 364 pages. ISBN 1-5542-423-6. University Politics: F.M. Cornford's Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician, by Gordon Johnson. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 112 pages. ISBN 0-521-46919-8.

Abstract: How colleges can design buildings to foster collegiality and productivity. Subtitles: The four promoters of talk; Moving people on campus. Pull quotes: "Planners should demand that architecture pay attention to the enhancement of exchanges and visits." "Magnets are important to draw faculty out of their offices." "Atriums have become popular linking floor levels." "Campus architecture should be grounded in the research on behavior."

Abstract: How should higher education deal with the variability of genetic differences? Subtitles: How much are IQ differences inherited?; The fruits of meritocracy; Defining the Cognitive Classes; What is IQ?; Cognition and social behavior; Are some groups more intelligent?; What social policies are needed? Pull quotes: "Individual variability is the biological norm, and humans are no exception." "As society reduces barriers, genetic differences become more important." "Today's elite college and university students come from all strata and backgrounds." "The United States has increasingly become a meritocracy of intelligence." "IQ test are not culturally biased, as is often alleged." "There is little evidence that current programs have any long-lasting effects on IQ scores." "They claim U.S. education has been 'dumbed down." "The book points to the ironies of achieving a new society based more fully on intellectual merit."

Abstract: Should we prefer standardized tests or high standards for everyone? Subtitles: A choice of intelligences; Those intelligence tests; How universities select the cognitive elite; Troubles in the methodology; Ethnicity, IQ, and social policy. Pull quotes: "Perhaps the most important social trend is the growing establishment of a new class." "Rating human intelligence is complex.: "People with lower IQ's are more likely to experience the greatest problems." "Only 10 percent of the 1952 entering class at Harvard would be competitive in the admissions process today." "It is peculiar how their fetish for the normal distribution is suspended when defining dependent variables other than IQ." "Is the cognitive elite among African Americans also attending college...and living a better life?" "What should the nation's policies be toward individuals and groups who rate at various points throughout the distribution?"

Abstract: Book Review: Realizing the Educational Potential of Residence Halls, by Charles Schroeder and Phyllis Mable. Jossey-Bass, 1994. 319 pages. ISBN 0-7879-0018-4.

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Recreate, not restore; Digging into the structure. Pull quotes: "The economics of being a professor have changed." "Liberal education cannot return to the past." "Colleges may need to experiment with two kinds of tenure."