Freshman Disorientation

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A Provocative Collection The War against the Intellect: Episodes In the Decline of Discourse By Peter Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989, 181 pages, $22.50 hardcover, $10.95 paperback. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth

Giving Freshmen What They Deserve The Freshman Year Experience M. Lee Upcraft, John N. Gardner and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989, 443 pages, $32.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling     

Some Student Comparisons

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The First Feminist Revolution: In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley By Patricia Ann Palmieri New Haven. Conn.: Yale University Press. 1995. 382 pages. $35. Reviewed by Frieda A. Stahl.

An Essential Guide: Learning Networks A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning OnlineBy Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1995, 329 pages, $35. Reviewed by Roger H. Marty.     

Recorded Student Interviews in Improving Instruction

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A Valuable Resource: Key Resources on Teaching, Learning, Curriculum, and Faculty Development By Robert J. Menges and B. Claude Mathis San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988, 406 pages, index, $35. Reviewed by Ohmer Milton

Accomplished Advocates for Change: Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove By Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, xii + 207 pages. Reviewed by Amy A. Kass

The Power of Scientific Thought: The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution By Margaret C. Jacob Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, xii + 274 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth     

The Troubled Student

Can Consensus Come from Our Present Disarray?: The State of the Nation and the Agenda for Higher Education By Howard Bowen San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982, 212 pages, index, $13.95. Reviewed by W. B. Allen

A Valuable Tool for Educational Reform On Teaching and Learning in College By Paul L. Dressel and Dora Marcus San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982, 241 pages, index, $16.95. Reviewed by Frederick Stirton Weaver     

Academic Attitudes,Expectations, and Achievement

Scholars Who Teach: The Art of College Teaching: Edited by Steven M. Cahn: Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1978, Cloth $14.95, Paper $7.95, 246 pages. Reviewed by Marilyn L. Schaefer.

Support for Teaching at Major Universities: Edited by Stanford C. Ericksen with John A. Cook.: Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Fall, 1979. $3.00. Reviewed by Kurt F. Geisinger.     

The Problem of the Inarticulate

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A Few Good Apples An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Authors Tell About Teachers Who Made the Difference Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987, xiv + 186 pages, $10.95 Reviewed by Roy Starling

Abrasive but Hopeful: The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students By Allan Bloom New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987, 392 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth     

Faculty Evaluation as a Liberal Persuasion

Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher, Seventh Edition: By Wilbert J. McKeachie: D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1978. Reviewed by Margaret O'Brien, SP.

Staff Development in Higher Education. An International Review and Bibliography, 1979: By David C. B. Teather: Nichols Publishing Company, P. O. Box 96, New York, New York 10024. $30.00. Reviewed by Gary W. Peterson.     

Teaching Teachers

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Women Against the Odds The Campus Troublemakers: Academic Women In Protest By Athena Theodore Houston: Cap and Gown Press, 1986 xxiv + 293 pages, $23.95 hardbound, $15.95 softbound. Reviewed by Claire Hirshfield

“Artistry of Discussion Leadership” and Other Skills Teaching and the Case Method By C. Roland Christensen, with Abby J. Hansen Boston: Harvard Business School, 1987, 290 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Richard Leahy

Valuable Background Reading College: The Undergraduate Experience in America By Ernest L. Boyer, president, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York: Harper &; Row, 1987, 328 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Frederick S. Weaver     

Students' Views of Teaching

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Much To Do About Writing: Teaching and Assessing Writing By Edward M. White San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985, 304 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David Taylor

A Poignant, Colorful Portrait: Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences By Lewis A. Coser New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, xviii + 351 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by R. W. Franklin     

Aims in Communication Courses

Ethics Teaching in Higher Education Edited by Daniel Callahan and Sissela Bok New York: Plenum Press, 1980, 315 pages, index, $19.50. Reviewed by Linda M. Hansen

The Assessment of College Performance: A Handbook of Techniques and Measures for Institutional Self-Evaluation By Richard I. Miller San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979, 374 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Burton L. Grover

Showdown Semester: Advice from a Writing Professor By Martin Russ New York: Crown Publishers, 1980, 214 pp., $9.95. Reviewed by Marco A. Portales     

Reinforcement and the Scholarly Response

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Failure is Impossible Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power By Kathleen Weiler South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin &; Garvey, 1988, 174 pages, $29.95 hardbound, $12.95 softbound Reviewed by Martha Kendall

Just the Right Medicine Exhortations on Liberal Education: A Dean Speaks His Mind By Robert L. Spaeth Collegeville, Minnesota: Office of Academic Affairs, St. John's University, 1988, 110 Pages, $4.95 softbound Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Are Intellectuals as Irrelevant as They Seem? The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In the Age of Academe By Russell Jacoby New York: Basic Books, 1987, 290 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joseph A. Amato     

Improving My Instruction

The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority Arthur G. Powell Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980, 341 pages, index, $18.50. Reviewed by Michael P. Zuckert

On College Teaching: A Guide to Contemporary Practices By Ohmer Milton and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1978, 404 pages, $14.95. Reviewed by Richard Leahy     

King PARS,Academic Nebuchadnezzer

The Modern American College: Responding to the New Realities of Diverse Students and a Changing Society By Arthur W. Chickering and Associates San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, xvii + 783 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by James L. Bess

Teaching Values in College Richard L. Morrill San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1980, 169 pages, index, $13.95 Reviewed by Frederick Stirton Weaver     

Senior Orientation

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Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition By Francis Oakley New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 230 pages, $24. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg.     

Book Review

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Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge By Kenneth Bruffee Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 256 pages, $25.95 Reviewed by Horace S. Rockwood III.     

Book Reviews

Education's Lasting Influence on Values: By Herbert H. Hyman and Charles R. Wright: University of Chicago Press, 1979, 161 pages, index, $12.50. Reviewed by William B. Allen.

Attitudes, Language, and Change: By Anne Gere and Eugene Smith: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois, 1979, $4.75, 108 pages, paperback. Reviewed by Gary M. Godfrey.

Instructional Techniques in Higher Education: By Robert B. Kozma, Lawrence W. Belle, George W. Williams: Educational Technical Publications, Inc. 1978, $15.95. Reviewed by Sharon L. Smith.

The Writing on the Wall: Inside Higher Education in America: By Gail Thain Parker: Simon and Schuster, 1979, $9.95, 208 pp. Reviewed by James Murphy.

American Academics: Then and Now: By Logan Wilson: Oxford University Press, 1979. Reviewed by David W. Felder.     

Sharing the Excitement of Learning

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Toward a Literate America Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know By E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987, xvii + 251 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Fauneil J. Rinn

Changing the Odds Academic Women, Working towards Equality By Angela Simeone South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin &; Garvey, 1987, 161 pages, $27.95 hardbound, $10.95 softbound. Reviewed by Pheme Perkins

Fruitful Background for Reasonable Discussion Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education By Bruce Kimball New York: Teachers College/Columbia University, 1986, xix + 293 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Geoffrey Comber     

The Great Teacher is a Creative Individual

Paradoxes of Education in a Republic By Eva Brann The University of Chicago Press, 1979,172 pages, $12.95. Reviewed by Perry C. Mason.

Group Memory: A Guide to College and Student Survival in the 1980s By Alston Chase Boston: Little, Brown, xviii + 330 pages, $12.95 Reviewed by Robert L. Spaeth.

Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline By John Simon New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980, 222 pages, index, $12.95. Reviewed by Carol A. Martin.     

An Analysis of Strategies for Teaching Environmental Concepts and Values Clarification in Kindergarten

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Earthwatching III: An Environmental Reader with Teacher's Guide, edited by Anne Hallowell, Tom Sinclair, Richard Hoops, and Stephen Wittman. University of Wisconsin, Madison: Institute for Environmental Studies and Sea Grant Institute, 1990. 160 pages. Paperback, $3.50 ($3.00 for ten or more). Reviewed by David C. Engleson.

The Global Ecology Handbook: What You Can Do about the Environmental Crisis, edited by Walter H. Corson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. 414 pages. Paperback, $16.95. Reviewed by David C. Engleson

Ecophilosophy: A Field Guide to the Literature, Donald Edward Davis. San Pedro, California: R &; E Miles, 1989. 137 pages. Paperback, $8.95. Reviewed by Deborah A. Simmons.

The Human Impact on The Natural Environment (third edition), Andrew Goudie. Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 1990. 388 pages. Paperback, $17.50. Reviewed by Margaret Millett Zemach.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out, Lester W. Milbrath. State University of New York Press, 1989. 403 pages. Paperback, $18.95. Reviewed by Margaret Millett Zemach.     

The Lecture

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Inspiration from an “Oasis of Possibility” Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared By Mike Rose New York: The Free Press, 1989, xiv + 242 pages, notes, bibliography, $22.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Spaeth

Invitation to Eavesdrop Voices In American Education By Bernard Murchland Ann Arbor, Michigan: Prakken Publications, 1990, 219 pages, $15.00 Reviewed by Martha Kendall