Teachers Bookshelf 

Selected Books About Higher Education and College Teaching

Note: These titles have been recommended by the VCAA staff and faculty on this campus. Items without call numbers are on order or are being cataloged.

Higher Education

Coloring the Halls of Ivy: Leadership & Diversity in the Academy.

(Josephine E. Davis, ed.) Anker, 1994.

Education Without Impact: How Our Universities Fail the Young.

(George H. Douglas) Carol Pub., (LA227.4 .D68 1992)

The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-Timers in Higher Education.

(Gappa, Judith M. and David W. Leslie) Jossey-Bass, 1993. (LB2331.72 G37 1993)

The Politics and Processes of Scholarship.

(Joseph M. Moxley and Lagretta T. Lenker, eds.) Greenwood, 1995. (AZ507 .P64 1995)

Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities for the Professoriate.

(Ernest L. Boyer) Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990. (LA226 .B69 1990)

New Agenda Series

from Lumina Foundation for Education (numerous reports that focus on financial access, student retention and attainment, and nontraditional learners and learning)

Assessment

Departmental Assessment: How Some Campuses are Effectively Evaluating the Collective Work of Faculty.

(Jon F. Wergin and Judi N. Swingen) American Association for Higher Education, 2000. (LB2333 .W424 2000)

Making a Difference: Outcomes of a Decade of Assessment in Higher Education.

(Trudy W. Banta and Associates) Jossey-Bass, 1993. (LA227.4 .M35 1993)

Faculty Evaluation and Rewards Including Tenure

Aligning Faculty Rewards with Institutional Mission: Statements, Policies, and Guidelines.

(Robert M. Diamond) Anker, 1999. (LB2335.7 .D53 1999)

The Case for Tenure.

(Matthew W. Finkin) ILR Press, 1996. (LB2335.7 .F55 1996)

Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions.

(Seldin, Peter and Associates) Anker, 1999. (LB2333 .S453 1999)

Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System: A Handbook for College Faculty and Administrators on Designing and Operating a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System.

(Raoul A. Arreola) 2nd ed. Anker, 2000. (LB2333 .A77 2000)

Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate.

(C.E. Glassick et al.) Jossey-Bass, 1997. (LB2331 .G63 1997)

Teaching

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life.

(Parker J. Palmer) Jossey-Bass, 1998. (LB1775 .P25 1998)

The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach.

(Judith Grunert) Anker, 1997. (LB1028.35 .G7 1997)

Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook.

(Nancy Van Note Chism) Anker, 1999. (LB2838 .C45 1999)

The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom.

(Stephen D. Brookfield) Jossey-Bass, 1990. (LB2331 .B68 1990)

Student-Assisted Teaching: A Guide to Faculty-Student Teamwork.

(Judith E. Miller et al.) Anker, 2001. (LB1031.5 .S78 2001)

Taking it Personally: Racism in the Classroom from Kindergarten to College.

(Ann Berlak and Sekani Moyenda.) Temple University Press, 2001. (LC212.2 .B47 2001)

The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions.

(Peter Seldin) 2nd ed. Anker, 1997. (LB2333 .S46 1997)

Teaching Portfolio: Capturing the Scholarship of Teaching.

(Russell Edgarton et al.) American Association for Higher Education, 1991. (LB2333 .E33 1995)

Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers.

(Wilbert J. McKeachie) 11th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. (LB1738 .M35 2002)

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

(Bell Hooks) Routledge, 1994. (LC196 .H66 1994)

Teaching with Technology: Seventy-five Professors from Eight Universities Tell Their Stories.

(David G. Brown, ed.) Anker, 2000. (LB1044.88 .T43 1999)

Using Student Teams in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide.

(Ruth Federman Stein and Sandra Hurd) Anker, 2000. (LB1032 .F434 2000)

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race.

(Beverly Daniel Tatum) Rev.ed. BasicBooks, 1999. (E185.625 .T38 1999)

Research

Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice.

(Edward E. LawlerIII et al.) Jossey-Bass, 1985. (HD58.7 .D65 1985)

Service

Service @ Indiana University: Defining, Documenting, and Evaluating.

Center for Public Service and Leadership, 1999. (REF LB2333 .S47 1999)

Search and Screen

Search Committee Handbook: A Guide to Recruiting Administrators.

(Theodore J. Marchese) American Association for Higher Education, 1988. (LB2331.6952 .M37 1988)