Explores how, although individual innovations like collaborative learning, service learning, or the use of technology in teaching are finding their way onto some campuses, a holistic approach that looks at teaching and learning strategies from an integrated perspective may offer the greatest impact. (EV)

Reviews programs such as the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and literature on the scholarship of teaching at the higher education level. Suggests that the scholarship of teaching is not synonymous with excellent teaching, but requires faculty to "go meta," to systematically investigate questions of student learning.…

There is a rich theoretical base for cooperative learning. Three interrelated types have been developed (formal, informal, cooperative base groups) that provide a framework for effective college teaching. However, too much emphasis is placed on developing the skills of individuals and too little on creating learning communities within which…

Proposes: (1) teaching is a human endeavor that does not and cannot improve over time; (2) human beings are fantastic learners and they learn all the time; and (3) humans don't learn well in the teaching-focused classroom. Concludes the need for more and better higher education won't be met until professors become designers of learning experiences…

A list of approximately 260 faculty nominated by their own institutions for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education on their campuses and beyond is presented. (MLW)

As college textbooks have become more attractive, sophisticated, and useful, the textbook industry is suffering from high costs, increased popularity of used books, effects of rapidly advancing information and instructional technology, the atypical business structure of the college textbook market, and changing textbook development processes. (MSE)

Discusses an eight-year seminar series at Emory University, the Luce Seminars, that sparked insights about new approaches to supporting faculty. The seminars, which strengthened the university's cultural milieu for scholarship without increasing the formal expectations of faculty performance, offered lessons on guiding teacher excellence,…

The goal of Ralf Dahrendorf, new director of the London School of Economics (LSE) is to restore the school's international reputation for the study of modern social science at both undergraduate and graduate levels with emphasis on the political role of social science knowledge. (JT)

Examines effects of the state-driven assessment and accountability movements on the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. Depicts how reformers tried to give teaching and learning a more central role on college and university campuses. Concludes that such efforts have received only limited support by faculty and institutions, and…

Uses 9 years of applications of award finalists for the Hesburgh Award for innovation in undergraduate teaching to examine leading-edge efforts to improve teaching and learning in 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. Describes efforts in three major categories: improving teaching, redesigning courses, and changing the learning environment of…

Describes how, when asked to devote the day following the September 11 tragedy to class discussions, University of Michigan instructors benefited from the skills and classroom strategies honed by colleagues whose classes regularly deal with complex human realities. (EV)

Profiles of 50 college faculty singled out for honors by their college presidents are presented. These faculty members are identified as responsible leaders and citizens who contribute to the quality of campus life beyond the lecture halls and labs. (MLW)

The ways that educators talk about teaching, borrowing from other disciplines such as business and psychology, reflect a need to create a reassuring world structured to assure results. They describe art as if it were science, but also seek to bring confidence and esteem to an undervalued profession. (MSE)

By modulating course requirements, effective classroom management is able to sustain respectable academic standards while making flexible concessions to student petitions. The author's name is a pseudonynm. (MLW)

Analysis of journals within the academic disciplines that address pedagogical issues suggests that many articles contain information and ideas useful across discipline boundaries and that content focuses on teaching technique. Recommendations are made to enhance the quality, credibility, and prestige of the periodicals. (MSE)