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Critical Thinking By Design, Joanne Gainen Kurfiss

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This essay offers guidelines for increasing the critical thinking potential of courses in the disciplines in higher education.

The Meaning Of College Grades, James Eison

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The often confusing and inconsistent character of academic grades in higher education can be greatly reduced by suggestions offered in this essay.

Pod Network Membership Directory 1989-90

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Membership Directory

United States and territories

Australia

Canada

England

Hong Kong

Rethinking What It Means To Be A Scholar, R. Eugene Rice

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A broader and more accurate definition of scholarship also includes the integration of knowledge, the application of knowledge, and the representation and dissemination of knowledge-teaching.

Teaching In Action: Criteria For Effective Practice, Ronald Smith, Fred Schwartz

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This essay describes ways through which teachers enhance their teaching art within the process of teaching itself.

The Muse: Resources For Faculty And Ta Newsletters, No. 2, Fall 1989

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Putting the edge on your newsletter: Easy-to-make design adjustments enhance readability and attractiveness to readers, by Linc. Fisch

Editors' musings

Filings ...

Excerpts: Composing Headlines

Design Review: Graphics and content bring Kennesaw's newsletter high grades

Supplement: Some observations on The Beacon, by Kenneth Zahorski

If Learning Involves Risk-Taking, Teaching Involves Trust-Building, Marilla Svinicki

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If Learning Involves Risk-taking, Teaching Involves Trust-building, by Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas-Austin

The premise of this article is that learning, like all other creative acts, will flourish in an atmosphere in which the learner is willing to take risks, and it is the task of the instructor to create such an atmosphere for learning. If we accept this view of learning as risk-taking, we can begin to confront the factors that discourage students from taking risks and build a class environment where learning becomes less of a risk, or where the risk-taking in learning becomes valued instead of dreaded. …

Reforming Undergraduate Education One Class At A Time, K. Patricia Cross

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Reforming Undergraduate Education One Class at a Time, by K. Patricia Cross, University of California, Berkeley:

A continuing question for those of us in education is-What can and should be done to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction? The reports that constitute the higher education reform movement of the 1980's have taken this as their major emphasis. However, while these reports express plenty of dissatisfaction with the quality of instruction, there are few constructive suggestions for what to do about it. Part of the problem is that there is an unexamined assumption that underlies most of the educational reform movement. …

The Beacon: A Guide To Faculty Development At St. Norbert College, Vol. Iv, No. 4

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Lampreys, Eels, and Skinks, with Small Potatoes by Phil Cochran

Faculty to Discuss Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals

''FOOD FOR THOUGHT'' Series Offers Attractive Fall Program

Notes from the Director A New Semester's Resolution

INTERNATIONAL FORUM ISAC and Killeen Chair to Co-sponsor Teach-in on South Africa

Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy in the Classroom -or- "Stop Hiding Behind the Podium and Talk with Your Students" James W. Neuliep

New Books in the Faculty Development Resource Center

Opportunity Calendar -· Fall Semester

Pod Membership Directory And Networking Guide 1988-89

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Membership Directory

Members by Location

Members by Institutional Type

The Tutor: Graduate Teacher Program Newsletter, University Of Colorado At Boulder, Vol. 5 No. 4

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Using common sense and kindness in teaching: Students with Special Needs, by Susan Anderson

Words from the Wise

The Muse: Ideas For Campus Newsletters, [No. 1,] October 1988

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Writing Newsletters with Style, by Maryellen Weimer

Newsletters Serve Many Purposes

So You Want to Be an Editor?

Editors' Musings

A Survey of 15 Editors - Successful Newsletter Editors Give Their Best Advice, by Linc. Fisch

Notes for the Beginner: Publish From Your Own Desk! By Laura Border

It's Basic, but Is It English?

Book Review of Editing Your Newsletter by Mark Beach

What's In a Name?

Excerpts: On Writing Well

Try a Few Tricks of the Layout Trade, by Linc. Fisch

Newsletter Seminars

Membership Directory, March 1, 1988

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Pod Network Institutional Members, 1986-1987

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Pod Network Institutional Members, 1986-1987

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Pod Network Membership Directory, March 20, 1987

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Pod Network Membership Directory, September 1986

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Pod Network Membership Directory, July 1985

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Letter, July 1984, Luann Wilkerson

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Membership Directory Special Edition 1984

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Membership List

Regional Cross References

Special Interest Cross Reference

Other POD Members July 1984

1979-80 Pod Members

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Analysis Of Membership Of Pod Network And Pod Core Committee By State As Of January 10, 1980

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Pod Directory Supplement, 8/6/80

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Pod Directory Supplement, 3/31/80

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1978-1979 Pod Members

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1977-1978 Pod Network Membership

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