Volume 13 (1994) To Improve the Academy
Section I: Teaching Improvement Practices and Programs
Teaching Improvement Practices: New Perspectives
W. Alan Wright and M. Carol O’Neil
Deepening and Broadening the Dialogue about Teaching
James R. Davis
Assessment and Values: A New Religion?
Anita Gandolfo
Academic Leaders and Faculty Developers: Creating and Institutional Culture That Values Teaching
Norman D. Aitken and Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Reclaiming Teaching Excellence: Miami University’s Teaching Scholars Program
Milton D. Cox
Valuing the Student Voice: Student Observer/Consultant Programs
D. Lynn Sorenson
Metaphors of Teaching: Uncovering Hidden Instructional Values
Darlene Hoffman
The Game of Academic Ethics: The Partnering of a Board Game
Stephen E. Sugar and Carol A. Willet
Section II: Including the “Other”: Transforming Knowledge and Teaching
The Implications of Cultural Diversity in American Schools
Johnson A. Afolayan
A Report Card for Diversity
Johnnella E. Butler
Knowledge into Wisdom: Incorporating Values and Beliefs to Construct A Wise University
Susan M. Aubrey and David K. Scott
Challenging Values: Conflict, Contradiction, and Pedagogy
Jacqueline Mintz
Do You See What I See?
Karin McGinnis and Kenneth Maeckelbergh
Putting Empowerment to Work in the Classroom
Trudy Knowles, Cheryl Medearis, Anne Snell
Increasing Sensitivity to Diversity: Empowering Students
Mary Anne Johnston
Leveling the Playing Field
Linda Hilsen and Deborah Peterson-Perlman
Section III: Listening to Each Other
Faculty Perceptions of Undergraduate Teaching
Deborah Olsen and Ada B. Simmons
Creating Teaching and Learning Partnerships with Students: Helping Faculty Listen to Student Voices
Helen Rallis
College Students’ Perceptions of Unfairness in the Classroom
Rita Cobb Rodabaugh
Section IV: Classroom Practices for Teaching Improvement
Complex Cooperative Learning Structures for College and University Courses
Phillip G. Cottell, Jr. and Barbara J. Millis
Conducting Cooperative Cases
Barbara J. Millis
The Value of Classroom Humor
Richard J. Nichols, Beverly T. Amick, and Madelyn Healy
Section V: POD Values: Reflections from the 1993 Conference
Unconscious Values within Four Academic Cultures
William Berquist
An Outsider’s View of POD Values—and of POD’s Value to the Academy
Kathleen McGrory



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