From pericles@temple.edu Thu Oct 10 21:03:22 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g9B43KFD027510 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:03:20 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Oct 10 21:03:20 2002 -0700 Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g9B43JMG010802 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:03:20 -0700 Received: from temple.edu (pcp01784256pcs.audubn01.nj.comcast.net [68.46.176.188]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3S00KSRTXIB0@mtaout04.icomcast.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:03:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:04:06 -0400 From: Dan Tompkins Subject: preparation of future faculty (AAC&U thread continued) To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: <3DA64DB5.FADCE62@temple.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en One nice illustration of the kind of work AAC&U does can be found in the most recent issue of the association's journal, Liberal Education, which discusses the role of graduate schools in preparing grad students to teach. In the lead article Jerry Gaff reports on national survey data illustrating that serious efforts in this regard are, at best, pretty scattered. See: The Disconnect between Graduate Education and the Realities of Faculty Work: A Review of Recent Research Jerry G. Gaff http://www.aacu-edu.org/liberaleducation/le-su02feature.cfm We distributed this article to a number of new faculty at Temple with the questions: a) does your experience confirm Gaff's report, and b) how then do you explain the paradox that most new faculty Temple is hiring are performing very well in the classroom. So far the answers to a) are positive and those to b) are fascinating. If folks on the list have any interest in checking the article and responding, I'd be interested in hearing from you. (I may mention the results at a panel on preparation of faculty at the New Orleans APA.) Best, Dan -- Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: http://courses.temple.edu/ih .