Fall 2009 2009 HIGHER EDUCATION Enlightening Problems: The failure to share academic expectations and civic responsibilities hurts students, schools, and society. Business Fluctuations: The recession cuts into college sports and alters campus enrollment. Collision Courses: An earthquake shakes up a university. Helicopter parents shake things up too. Apex Award Winner Chapter Update: for Publication Excellence Distinguished Member Shirley C. Sorensen, 85, retires as executive secretary of the for Magazine & Journal University of Maryland chapter after more Writing for the than two decades of service. Spring 2009 Edition About Us Phi Kappa Phi Forum mission statement Phi Kappa Phi Forum, a multidisciplinary quarterly that enlightens, challenges and entertains its diverse readers, The fi rst organizational meeting of what came serves as a general-interest Archival photo. 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Rogow College and university students, professors and administrators confront numerous Editor’s Note challenges from pedagogy to economics and from natural disasters to intrusive parents. By Peter Szatmary 3 Society Information The Climate Outside the Classroom 27 Society Developments Earns a Failing Grade 28 Member Spotlight 4 By Mark Bauerlein 29 Member News Students and professors fail to communicate about goals. 31 In Memoriam Engagement in Civic Education 33 Phi Kappa Phi Bookshelf Remains Weak 34 Chapter Update 8 By Bruce L. R. Smith and A. Lee Fritschler The governance of ethics at schools continues to fall short. C 21 Ethics Seismic Shifts and Other Visible Tremors By Mary Ann Manos By Lallie Fay Scott 22 Science and Technology 11 A visiting geography professor offers By Jason Caudill snapshots of the 2008 earthquake in China. 23 Education and Academics Recession Emerges as Formidable By Helen Janc Malone Foe for College Sports 24 Business and Economics By Jurgen Brauer 14 By Tim DeSchriver The name of the game is cost-effectiveness and survival. 25 Workplace and Employment By Kimberly Thompson Calculated Decisions Factor into the 26 Arts and Entertainment Economics of a College Education By Sybil Huskey By Dean E. Nelson 17 When coffers run low, a degree becomes F even more of a business decision. 32 Book Review: The Unforgiving Minute: Teach Your Children Well A Soldier’s Education By Morten Ender By William A. Bloodworth, Jr. 20 Society President-Elect and university president 35 Poetic Pause: recalls an instructive childhood infl uence. “Now That You’re Graduating What Do You Plan to Do with Your Life?” RELATED STORIES, ONLINE ONLY: By Mariana L. Seda 36 Picture This ... The Contributions of Research to Teaching in Higher Education By Bruce A. Thyer with Matthew Henry Hall Faculty research contributes to instruction and other responsibilities collectively known as teaching. Go online to http://www.phikappaphi.org/web/Publications/Forum/fall09/research.html. On the cover: The 1894-vintage Old Main administration building at the University “The Graduation Play” By Deborah Ann Percy and (William) Arnold Johnston of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shown in this A bank executive and lawyer spar while attending their unseen son’s college commencement in undated photo. By Douglas Moore, University Relations & Communications, this one-act play about familial pride and tension. Go online to http://www.phikappaphi.org/web/ University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. © Publications/Forum/fall09/graduationplay.html. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. Fall 2009 P President’s Page But of late during my many years as professor By Robert B. Rogow and administrator, I have observed a shift away H. Ellsworth Steele, president from the “giving back” component of the tripartite of the Auburn University Phi goals for higher-education faculty: teaching, Board of Directors Kappa Phi chapter in the late 1970s, research and service.