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... structures of collaboration—team- teaching, service- learning, performance and interdisciplinary syllabi, and courses taught between campuses and across the globe—Moffat shows how deliberate collaboration can yield more from less. Using examples from colleagues' work in small departments at Dickinson College...

... university for the very different environment of a small liberal arts college? McDougal addresses these questions (and more) in his essay, “The Remaking of a Small College English Department.” © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 McDougal, Stuart. 1995 . “A Time for Change.” University Record...

... semester on an undergraduate level. While one could teach this course in any type of college or university setting, I suggest that that the values and community of a small liberal arts college encourage faculty to create courses requiring intense student-faculty interaction and encourage students to blur...

...Travis Landry; Jesse Matz Now that “world literature” has become a theoretical problem as much as a body of texts, the small-college classroom faces new challenges and new opportunities. Resource limitations and other constraints combine with advantages of scale and ethos to make the small college...

...Mark C. Long “Centers and Peripheries” introduces the two goals of Pedagogy 's special issue: to investigate what might be possible in the small college department as well as to suggest how these possibilities might inspire comparable intellectual work in other professional and institutional...

...Peg Downes College and university English departments always are active places, but those in many public liberal arts colleges are notably pleasant, as well. What accounts for this? Though these small academic units clearly learn much from large research institutions, perhaps the learning can...

...): namely, there is a small number of (say, fifty) elite research universities and super-selective private liberal arts colleges, and then there is everybody else. As Magali Larson says, “A profession is always defined by its elites” (1977: 227, qtd. in Caesar 2000: 112), and elite institutions have...

...Jennifer L. Holberg; Marcy Taylor © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Note from the Editors Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor This special issue on the “small college department” is an important one to us. From its founding, Pedagogy has been committed to featuring voices from...

... on Chance and Distraction   507 Jay, Paul | see Cassuto, Leonard Kastner, Stacy | see Hauman, Kerri Khost, Peter H., Debra Rudder Lohe, and Chuck Sweetman | Rethinking and Unthinking the Graduate Seminar 19 Landry, Travis, and Jesse Matz | Small College, World Literature 253 Lee...

... interest in making visible faculty work in small college departments. Long’s most recent publications include an essay on bioregionalism in the Indian  Journal of Ecocriticism and a collection of essays, Teaching North American Environmental Literature (2008). Since 2005, Long has been an associate...

..., Wendy. 2010. “Creativity and Collaboration in the Small College Department.” Pedagogy 10.2: 283 – 94. Nilson, Linda B. 2010. Teaching at Its Best: A Research-­Based Resource for College Instructors. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-­Bass. Pearson, Nels C., and Ashley Byun McKay. 2010...

... instructor in a small, rural community college in Michigan s Upper Peninsula, I experi- ence both ends of the polarized spectrum of what makes open enrollment both richly rewarding and utterly challenging. Much like basic training in the military, my education and teaching at the university level couldn t...

... instructor in a small, rural community college in Michigan s Upper Peninsula, I experi- ence both ends of the polarized spectrum of what makes open enrollment both richly rewarding and utterly challenging. Much like basic training in the military, my education and teaching at the university level couldn t...

...Mary Theresa Hall © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds . By Richard J. Light. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Boyer, Ernest L. 1990 . Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate . Princeton...

...Ned Laff © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds . By Richard J. Light. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Boyer, Ernest L. 1990 . Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate . Princeton, N.J...

... or communal experience—be it with a faculty adviser, residence hall staff, or a mentor—quickly dismisses the notion that this handbook is for a selective readership or a small college. Light provides practical ways for student ser- vices staff, faculty, and campus leaders to elicit collaborative principles...

...Carrie King Wastal © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds . By Richard J. Light. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Boyer, Ernest L. 1990 . Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate . Princeton...

... other than new occasions for their writing, despite my attempts to excite them by drawing attention to the poets as recently discovered. I continued to teach noncanonical authors in my first job out of grad- uate school in 1993 as a brand-new assistant professor at a small college in North Carolina...

... Chicago. The average age of the students is thirty-five. Most have jobs, are the heads of their families, and attend GSU part-time. This environment contrasts sharply with the traditional small-college setting at Findlay. Not surprisingly, the trajectory for WAC on the two campuses has been different...

...” (guest edited by Barbara Schneider). We also have a special issue in the works for volume 10, “Teaching in the Small College.” 2. Fish (2008: 154) notes the decline in state support for higher education, in some states to a 10% appropriation or less, and asks “at what point...