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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 425 677 HE 031 727 AUTHOR Marchese, Theodore J., Ed. TITLE AAHE Bulletin, 1997-98. INSTITUTION American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. ISSN ISSN-0162-7910 PUB DATE 1998-00-00 NOTE 177p.; Published ten times a year. AVAILABLE FROM American Association for Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, DC 20036-1110; Tel: 202-293-6440; Fax: 202-293-0073 (free to members; institutional subscriptions, $35; $45 outside U.S.; back issues, $5). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT AAHE Bulletin; v50 n1-10 Sep 1997-Jun 1998 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS College Administration; *College Faculty; *College Instruction; Educational Finance; Educational Technology; *Educational Trends; *Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Strategic Planning ABSTRACT This document consists of the ten consecutive issues of the "AAHE Bulletin" published during volume year 50. Issues of this bulletin present reports, reviews, and essays on issues concerning the advancement of higher education. Selected major articles in these ten issues include: "The Advancement of Teaching," an interview with Lee Shulman (Margaret A. Miller); "Think Twice and Businesslike about Distance Education" (Kenneth C. Green); "The Missing Step in Searches for Academic Administrators" (Steven M. Cahn); "Assessing with the Net" (Tracee Tyree); "Computers for Everyone," an interview with David G. Brown (Ted Marchese); "Feedback: How Learning Occurs" (Grant Wiggins); "Organizing for Learning: A New Imperative" (Peter T. Ewell); "Life After College: Employment, Further Education, Lifestyle for Recent Grads" (Colleen T. O'Brien); "The Principled Pursuit of Academic Integrity" (Donald L. McCabe, Gary Pavela); "Confessions of a Small-College President" (Albert Anderson); "Supporting the Individual and the Institution" (Margaret A. Miller); "Building on Progress" (Pat Hutchings); "How Colleges Evaluate Teaching: 1988 vs. 1998" (Peter Seldin); "Reversing the Telescope: Fitting Individual Tasks to Common Organizational Ends" (Ernest A. Lynton); "What Happened to CQI?" (Susan West Engelkemeyer); "Thinking Seriously about Paying for College: The Large Effects of a Little Thought" (George R. Goethals, Cynthia McPherson Frantz); "Learning Communities, the Wizard, and the Holy Grail" (John T. Masterson); "Reaping the Benefits: Defining the Public and Private Value of Going to College"; "Not-So-Distant Competitors: How New Providers Are Remaking the Postsecondary Marketplace" (Ted Marchese); "Turning Ideas into Expeditions: Expeditionary Strategy and Products for the Knowledge Age" (Donald M. Norris); "Post-Tenure Review: At the Crossroads of Accountability and Opportunity" (Christine M. Licata); "Taking Learning Seriously: AAHE's 53rd National Conference on Higher Education"; and "Models of Good Practice for Service-Learning Programs: What Can We Learn from 1,000 Faculty, 25,000 Students, and 27 Institutions Involved in Service?" (Mary Kay Schneider) . (DB) AAHEBulletin Volume 50 Numbers 1-10 September 1997-June 1998 BEST COPYmaw U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ffice of Educational Research and Improvement PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS CENTER (ERIC) BEEN GRANTED BY 0, This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. AAHE 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES document do not necessarily represent INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) official OERI position or policy. 2 AAHEBulletin September/1991 Volume 50/Number 1 Advancing Teaching Margaret A. Miller Interviews Lee S. Shulman 1998 National Conference on Higher Education "Taking Learning Seriously" March 21-24, Atlanta, GA Call for Proposals Deadline: October 15 Aw,A'S NMI AARE NEWS BOARD ELECTION BULLETIN BOARD ..W.M fis RESULTS by Ted Marchese = AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION In This Issue 3 The Advancement of Teaching Lee Shulman, new president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, talks about teaching as learning and vice versa. interview by Margaret A. Miller 8 "Taking Learning Seriously" 1998 National Conference Call for Proposals The theme statement/by Louis Albert The three theme tracks Proposal guidelines Pullout 1998 Proposal Submission Form deadline October 15 Departments 13 AAHE News...election results to AAHE's Board... newWeb column... conference info... newpublication...and more 15 Bulletin Board/by Ted Marchese AMIE BULLETIN September 1997/Volume 50/Number 1 Editor: Theodore J. Marchese Managing Editor: Bry Pollack Editorial Assistant: Kerrie Kemperman AAHE Bulletin is published by the American Association for Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, DC 20036- 1110; ph. 202/293-6440; fax 2021293-0073. President: Margaret A. Miller. Vice Presidents: Louis S. Albert and Theodore J. Marchese. The Bulletin accepts unsolicited manuscripts, subject to editorial review. Guidelines for authors are available by calling 510/271-8164, item 11. AAHE Bulletin (ISSN 0162-7910) is published as a membership service of the American Association for Higher Education, a nonprofit organization incorporated in the District of Columbia. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, DC and at additional mailing offices. Annual domestic membership dues: $95, of which $55 is for publications. Subscriptions for AAHE Bulletin without membership are available only to institutions: $35 per year, $45 outside the United States. AAHE Bulletin is published ten times per year, monthly except July and August. Back issues: $5.00 each, including postage, while supplies last. AAHE Bulletin is available in microform from University Microfilms International. Printed in the United States of America. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to AAHE Bul- letin, Attn: Membership Dept., One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, DC 20036-1110. 4 BEST COPY MA1LAKE Cover photograph 0 Mark Ludak 1 Impact Visuals. Cover by CLN Associates. Printing by HBP. Cover concept by Dever Designs. f3C9' AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION TheAdvancement ofTeaching An interview with the new head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Lee Shulman. by Margaret A. Miller The 1998 AAHE National Conference on MILLER: Lee, if we take as a given that the ulti- Higher Education will have as its theme "Tak- mate end of teaching is learning, what do we know ing Learning Seriously." (For the conference from research and practice about how to turn a fac- call for proposals, see ulty's discipline-based knowl- pages 8-12.) The recent edge into student learning? focus on learning in the nation- SHULMAN: An academic dis- al conversation about higher cipline is a bridge between education is meant as a correc- investigation and explanation, tive to previous definitions of between the search for under- effective teaching, not all of standing and its formulation. which have included its capaci- It structures communication ty to generate deep and signifi- among members of an investi- cant changes in student gatory community ... it helps understanding. them share and shape what Someone who has never lost they know. We all need to sight of learning in the course exchange what we know with of a career spent defining and others. That's part of the joy of promoting effective teaching is knowing. Lee S. Shulman. The Charles E. John Dewey helped us Ducommun Professor of Educa- understand the connection tion and professor of psycholo- between discovering some- gy at Stanford University, as thing for yourself and then for- well as the founding codirector mulating it in ways that make of Michigan State University's sense to others. Formulating it Institute for Research on Teaching, Shulman recently for others is, in a deep sense, an integral part of the succeeded the late Ernest Boyer as the president of process of discovery and investigation; it isn't some- the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of thing "other." I've been profoundly influenced by Teaching. that Deweyian insight because it's what convinced Lee Shulman will be a major speaker at the me that the process of teaching something to some- 1998 National Conference (March 21-24, At- one else is one particular social use, if you will, of lanta). Over the summer, AAHE's president Peg the very same processes we use to try to make our Miller explored with him the nexus between teach- work understandable to peers in our disciplinary ing and learning. communities. When we begin working on what we Eds. understand so that others can understand it as well, then participate in the dialogues that ensue, we test and elaborate and deepen what we thought we knew in isolation. So that when you ask about the relationship AAHE BULLETIN/SEPTEMBER 1997/3 As faculty members, as scholars, we tend to forget how long it took us to achieve an understanding... between teaching and learning, conclusions." Students need a MILLER: But so often it doesn't in one important sense they are sense of both. work. part of the same process, inher- A related problem is that stu- SHULMAN: And we can't under- ent parts of what it means to dents, not yet members of our stand why, because we believe we learn something. The two pro- intellectual community, carry thought it through so carefully, cesses within the individual with them all kinds of concepts, and feel virtuous because we're and within the community of orientations, attitudes, disposi- applying the results of cognitive scholars can't thrive without tions, and knowledge that can research. It never occurs to us each other. block the kind of learning we how much prior learning has to Indeed, I wouldn't claim that want. The great irony of learning occur for people (both students I'd "learned" something until I is that the major prerequisite to and teachers) to be able to work had successfully explained or dis- learning something is knowing a effectively and fruitfully as mem- cussed it with somebody else, andlot of related things and knowing bers of collaborating groups. We seen what they did with what it them in a fruitful way. Complex don't take somebody with all the is I think I know ..