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MICHIGAN FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR
May 21-28, 2011

Readings about U.S. Higher Education:  The readings below include articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as speeches, book chapters and excerpts from encyclopedias.

* Articles are in Chinese.

1.0 Faculty Development
  1.1 Cook, C. E. & Kaplan, M. (Eds.). (2011). Advancing the Culture of Teaching on Campus: How a Teaching Center Can Make a Difference. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
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 1.2 Cook, C.E. & Sorcinelli, M. D. (April 26, 2002). The Value of a Teaching Center. Retrieved from: http://www.podnetwork.org/faculty_development/values.htm (also Published in abbreviated form in the Chronicle for Higher Education).
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 1.3 Faculty Development Definitions. (n.d.). in the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.podnetwork.org/faculty_development/definitions.htm

2.0 Effective Educational Practices
    General
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 2.1 Brown, M. K., Hershock, C. Finelli, C. J., O’Neal, C. (2009). Teaching for Retention in Science, Engineering, and Math Disciplines. CRLT Occasional Papers, 25.
  2.2 Cashin, W. E. (1999). Student Ratings of Teaching: Uses and Misuses. In Seldin, P. (Ed.) Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A practical guide to improved faculty performance and promotion/tenure decisions (pp. 25-44). Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.
  2.3 Felder, R. M., & Brenth, R. (2004). How to Evaluate Teaching. Chemical Engineering Education, 38(3), 200-201.
  2.4 Halpern, D. H., & Hakel, M. D. (2003). Applying the science of learning to the university and beyond. Change, 35(4), 37-41.
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 2.5 Kuh, G. D. (2008). High-Impact Educational Practices. Retrieved from http://aacu.org/leap/hip.cfm
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 2.6 Meizlish, D. (2005). Promoting Academic Integrity in the Classroom. CRLT Occasional Papers, 20.
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 2.7 Weimer, M. (2010, October 1). Why are students so passive and what can teachers do about it? Tomorrow’s Professor, 1046. Retrieved from http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1046
  Teaching with Groups
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 2.8 Finelli, C. J., Bergom, I. & Mesa, V. 2011. Student Teams in the Engineering Classroom and Beyond: Setting up Students for Success. CRLT Occasional Papers, 29.
  Fostering Creativity and Critical Thinking
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 2.9 AAC&U Critical Thinking VALUE Rubric. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/CriticalThinking.cfm
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 2.10 AAC&U Creative Thinking VALUE Rubric. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/CreativeThinking.cfm
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 2.11 Blythe, H. & Sweet, C. (2011, March 1). Why Creativity, Why Now? Tomorrow’s Professor, 1080. Retrieved from http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1080
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 2.12 Sternberg, R. J. (October 10, 2010). Teach Creativity, Not Memorization. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Creativity-Not/124879/

3.0 Teaching and Learning at the University of Michigan
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 3.1 Tang, Yong. (2004, June 14). Mounting at the top of world-class universities. Peoples Daily, p. 7.
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 3.2 Wright, M. C. (2010). The Growing Importance of Teaching at the University of Michigan, 1996-2010. CRLT Occasional Papers, 28.
  3.3 Wright, M. C., Finelli, C. J., Meizlish, D. & Bergom, I. (March/April, 2011). Facilitating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at a Research University. Change, 43(2), 50-56.

4.0 Characteristics of United States Higher Education
  4.1 Goodchild, L.F. (2002). History of Higher Education in the United States. In Forest, JF & Kinser, K. (Eds.), Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 319-331). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
  4.2 A brief guide to US higher education. (2007). Washington, DC: American Council on Education.
* 4.3 June, A. W. (2006, March 3). College classifications get an overhaul. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/College-Classifications-Get-an/13448

5.0 Undergraduate Education in the United States
  5.1 Bastedo, M. (2002). General Education. In Forest, JF & Kinser, K. (Eds.), Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 273-275). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
* 5.2 Miller, R. (2002). Liberal Arts. In Forest, JF & Kinser, K. (Eds.), Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 401-403). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
  5.3 Wilkinson, J. (2006, July 11). Undergraduate Education: What good is it: An international perspective. Speech presented at Sir Robert Menzies Oration on Higher Education, University of Melbourne