NEA Higher Education Thought & Action Journal

Table of Contents

An Overview
Con Lehane

Are You as Good a Teacher as You Think?
Paul C. Price

Common Errors in Calculating Final Grades
Richard W. Francis

Ideology and Ideological State Syllabi
William Vaughn

School on Probation: Teaching That Changes Lives
Taylor Stoehr

Science as a Borderless Discipline
Diana R. Cundell

Special Focus: The Academy at Work

On the Brink: Assessing the Status of the American Faculty
Jack H. Schuster & Martin J. Finkelstein

Extra! Extra! NEA organizational specialist Christine Maitland, a former student of Schuster asked him a couple of questions about the article above and the book he and Finkelstein wrote. Take a look.

Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals
Henry A. Giroux

Beyond the 'Chilly Climate': Eliminating Bias Against Women and Fathers in Academe
Joan C. Williams, Tamina Alon, and Stephanie Bornstein

Community College Faculty and Web-based Classes
Vernon C. Smith and Gary Rhoades

Higher Ed Staff Personal Economies: We Can't Eat Prestige
Janine Bonk, Jane Crouch, Marie Kilian, and Loraine Lowell

Challenging Stereotypes That Interfere With Effective Governance
Adrianna Kezar, Jaime Lester, and Gregory Anderson

A Case for Revisiting Tenure Requirements
Dianne Rush Woods

From Art to Alienated Labor: The Degradation of Academic Work
Jeff Lustig

Reviews

Whither the Professoriate?
Reviews of The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers
by Jack H. Schuster & Martin J. Finkelstein
Reviewed by: Philip G. Altbach

Rich Man, Poor Man
A Review of Aiding Students, Buying Students: Financial Aid in America
By Rupert Wilkinson
Reviewed by Sara Goldrick-Rab

A Manual for Action
A Review of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
By Joe Berry
Reviewed by Craig Flanery

The Not-so Silent Generation
A Review of Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
by Linda Eisenmann
Reviewed by Philo Hutcheson

Letters

Letters to the editor

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