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What's The Problem Now?, Randall Bass
What's The Problem Now?, Randall Bass
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Revisiting an essay from 1999, this article explores the current conditions in higher education, and society more broadly, that help shape the roles for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and educational development. By seeing the current “crises” of higher education not only as “problems” to be investigated but as a “wicked problem,” we might be able to elevate and complicate the role that inquiry into teaching and learning might play in institutional change and the expansion of higher education. The article argues for the necessity, even urgency, of seeing educational development as a lever for change, fully engaged …
Casualization: A Primer, Aaron Barlow
Casualization: A Primer, Aaron Barlow
Publications and Research
The problem of casualization (the increasing reliance on adjunct and contingent faculty) grows in American higher education each year. Yet, for all of the attention now being paid to the plight of the adjuncts, few understand exactly what is happening and why, or what the impact is on colleges and univerrsitties.