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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811322403321

Autore

Zemsky Robert

Titolo

Making Sense of the College Curriculum : Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation / / Robert Zemsky, Ann J. Duffield, Gregory R Wegner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8135-9504-5

0-8135-9506-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

378.1/990973

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Curricula - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

College teaching - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: An Exercise in Sensemaking -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate curriculum is so vexing to colleges and universities. Their stories also belie the public's and policymakers' belief that faculty members care more about their scholarship and research than their students and work far less than most people.