Welcome to the Prof's Corner, where you can find resources on higher education and teaching! The corner features a selective collection of books, journals and magazines, and Web sites. See below for a list of the materials available at the Prof's Corner, as well as links to online resources on excellence in teaching.
Books (click title to check MacCAT for availability)
General - Pedagogy - Christian Higher Education - Assessment
Philosophy - Technology - Information Literacy
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General
Academic advising: a comprehension handbook
Achieving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college
Arenas of entrepreneurship: where nonprofit and for-profit institutions compete
At the heart of teaching
Becoming a critically reflective teacher
Better teaching, more learning : strategies for success in postsecondary settings
Building the christian academy
Changing general education curriculum
Changing student attendance patterns: challenges for policy and practice
The Chicago handbook for teachers: a practical guide to the college classroom
Choice books for college libraries
Classroom research: early lessons from success
College teaching: from theory to practice
Conceiving the christian college
Cracking the GRE, with four full-length practice tests on CD-ROM
Cradles of conscience : Ohio’s independent colleges and universities
Developing and implementing service-learning programs
Developing external partnerships for cost-effective, enhanced services
Effective college teaching: the quest for relevance
The elements of teaching
Exploring the role of contingent instructional staff in undergraduate learning
GMAT comprehensive program (2006)
How the student credit hour shapes education: the tie that binds
The idea of a college
Identifying and preparing academic leaders
If Jesus were a sophomore : discipleship for college students
Interdisciplinary studies today
The joy of teaching: a practical guide for new college instructors
The knowledge contract: politics and paradigms in the academic workplace
Leveraging resources through partnerships
Manifesto of a tenured radical
Millennials go to college: strategies for a new generation on campus: recruiting and admissions, campus life, and the classroom
The passionate intellect : incarnational humanism and the future of university education
A practical handbook for college teachers
Pro Christo et Patria: a history of Geneva College
Revising your dissertation: advice from leading editors
Serving the millennial generation
The skillful teacher: on technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom
Supporting graduate and professional students : the role of student affairs
Teaching for understanding: what it is and how to do it
Teaching on solid ground: using scholarship to improve practice
Transitions between faculty and administrative careers
The theory & practice of teaching
Understanding the role of academic and student affairs collaboration in creating a successful learning environment
Veritas : Harvard College and the American experience
Pedagogy
101 ways to make training active
Active learning: creating excitement in the classroom
Applying the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education
College teaching: from theory to practice
Collaborative learning: underlying processes and effective techniques
Discussion as a way of teaching: tools and techniques for democratic classrooms
Education for judgment: the artistry of discussion leadership
Effective practices for improving teaching
Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning : professional literature that makes a difference
Improving your classroom teaching
Mentor : guiding the journey of adult learners
The quality professor: implementing TQM in the classroom
Teaching large classes well
The small college dean
Tools for teaching
What successful teachers do: 91 research-based classroom strategies for new and veteran teachers
What the best college teachers do
Information Literacy
Assessing student learning outcomes for information literacy instruction in academic institutions
Information literacy: essential skills for the information age
Integrating information literacy into the higher education curriculum: practical models for transformation
Training college students in information literacy
Philosophy of Teaching/Higher Education
Academic life: hospitality, ethics, and spirituality
The changing face of college teaching
The digital revolution and the coming of the postmodern university
The ethics of educational research
The future of higher education: rhetoric, reality, and the risks of the market
Idea of a University
Knowing and reasoning in college : gender-related patterns in students’ intellectual development
The knowledge factory: dismantling the corporate university and creating true higher learning
Learning communities: creating connections among students, faculty, and disciplines
Learning that lasts: integrating learning, development, and performance in college and beyond
The making of the modern university : intellectual transformation and the marginalization of morality
Organizational learning in higher education
Prescribing the life of the mind: an essay on the purpose of the university, the aims of liberal education, the competence of citizens, and the cultivation of practical reason
Reforming the higher education curriculum: internationalizing the campus
Teaching as community property: essays on higher education
To teach: the journey of a teacher
Using benchmarking to inform practice in higher education
Assessment
The art and science of classroom assessment
Linking teacher evaluation and student learning
Outcomes assessment in higher education: views and perspectives
The teaching portfolio: a practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions
Teaching using Technology
Developing faculty to use technology: programs and strategies to enhance teaching
Effective teaching with technology in higher education: foundations for success
Handbook of online learning: innovations in higher education and corporate training
Technology in student affairs: supporting student learning and services
Technology leadership: communication and information systems in higher education
Christian Higher Education
Called to teach: an introduction to the ministry of teaching
Christian liberal arts: an education that goes beyond
Christianity and the soul of the university : faith as a foundation for intellectual community
The dying of the light: the disengagement of colleges and universities from their Christian churches
Faith and learning on the edge: a bold new look at religion in higher education
Faithful learning and the Christian scholarly vocation
God on the quad: how religious colleges and the missionary generation are changing America
How to keep your faith while in college
Idea of a Christian College
The implications of student spirituality for student affairs practice
Mentoring for mission: nurturing new faculty at church-related colleges
Professing in the postmodern academy: faculty and the future of church-related colleges
Quality with soul : how six premier colleges and universities keep faith with their religious traditions
The soul of the American university: from protestant establishment to established nonbelief
The teacher’s calling: a spirituality for those who teach
Journals and Magazines
About Campus
Print Access in McCartney Library (2001 Nov.-present)
Online Full-text Access in Academic Search Complete (1997-present with a 12-month delay)
Academe
Print Access in McCartney Library (1979-present)
Online Full-Text Access in Academic Search Complete (2002-present)
Change
Print Access in McCartney Library (1974 Summer-present)
Online Full-Text Access in Academic Search Complete (1990-present)
Christian Higher Education
Print Access in McCartney Library (2002-present)
Online Full-Text Access in Academic Search Complete (2002 Mar.-present, with a 12-Month delay)
College Teaching
Print Access in McCartney Library (1985-present)
Online Full-Text Access in Academic Search Complete (1990-present)
Higher Education Abstracts
Print Access in McCartney Library (1990 Fall-present)
Higher Education Legal Alert
Print Access in McCartney Library (Retain current 2 years)
Intégrité
Print Access in McCartney Library (2002 Fall-present)
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Print Access in McCartney Library (1994 Autumn-present)
Journal of College Science Teaching
Print Access in McCartney Library (1974 Sept.-present)
Journal of Higher Education
Print Access in McCartney Library (1965-present)
Online Full-Text Access in Academic Search Complete (2003 May-present)
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Print Access in McCartney Library (2002-present)
Journal of Marketing Education
Print Access in McCartney Library (2005-present)
Library Issues
Online Access (1996 July-present, available on campus only)
Professor in the Classroom
Print Access in McCartney Library (Retain current 5 years)
Review of Higher Education
Print Access in McCartney Library (1998 Fall-present)
Trusteeship
Print Access in McCartney Library (1998 Nov.-present)
Links to Learning and Teaching Centers
Abilene University: Adams Center for Teaching Excellence
Carnegie Mellon: Enhancing Education
Dalhousie University: Centre for Learning and Teaching
Union University: Center for Faculty Development
U. of Georgia: Office of Instructional Support and Development
UNC at Chapel Hill: Center for Teaching and Learning
U. of Washington: Center for Instructional Development and Research
