Each fall, a book is selected for reading and casual discussion among faculty participating in the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence faculty book club. Previous books read include "The Missing Professor" by Thomas B. Jones, and "What the Best College Teachers Do" by Ken Bain.
Given the challenges presented to faculty by the many demands on their time, the book selected for fall 2008 is "Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching" by Douglas Reimondo Robertson. The book cover states, "Lack of time may be the single most commonly experienced problem among American faculty. It is fair to say that the overwhelming majority of the roughly 400,000 full time faculty in American colleges and universities feel overloaded in their teaching lives; they perceive that they do not have time to do their basic faculty duties properly; and they believe that overload goes with the job."
Join us this fall for what is certain to be a lively discussion. Dates and times will be posted on this site at a later time.
