T&LCresources

Books
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This page will be expanded during the fall semester of 2006.

AASU Teaching & Learning Center
Solms Hall 209

AASU's Teaching & Learning Center, located in room 209 of Solms Hall, is available to all AASU faculty and staff. The Center is open weekdays from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. (other hours by appointment), and it may be reserved by AASU faculty for meetings, workshops, classes, and conferences. Please call Dick Nordquist or Peggy Williams at 921 5991 for more information or to make reservations.

What is the purpose of the Teaching & Learning Center?

The T&LC serves a variety of purposes. It is a meeting place for numerous faculty committees and campus organizations, a seminar room for students and faculty in the MALPS program, a well-equipped presentation room for special events, and, above all else, a resource center for students, faculty, and staff.

What books are available in the Teaching & Learning Center?

Opened in spring 2004 and outfitted for the most part by members of the Faculty Development Committee, the T&L Center has collected well over 200 books that should be of interest to AASU faculty. Many of the books, of course, explore the scholarship of teaching and provide insights into effective teaching and learning. Enduring texts such as Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) and McKeachie’s Teaching Tips (now in its 12^th edition) sit side by side with Engaging the Online Learner (2004), Problem-Based Learning in the Information Age (2003), and Advancing Faculty Learning Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2005).

Other books in the Center focus on broader academic concerns: developing support-systems for part-time faculty, facilitating student research, fostering leadership skills, securing grants, achieving tenure. The politics and prejudices of higher education are examined in such works as Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace (2000), Declining by Degrees: Education at Risk (2005), and The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (2000).

Some of the studies are provocative (University, Inc.) while others are cathartic (Management Fads in Higher Education). Some inspire (Palmer’s The Courage to Teach); others amuse (Don’t Step in the Leadership).

Complete lists of the books (cataloged by authors' last names) currently available in the Center can be downloaded as pdf files:
    books A-F
   books G-L
   books M-Z
All faculty and graduate students are welcome to borrow any of the books in the Center.

What journals are available in the Teaching & Learning Center?

In Solms 209 you will also find a modest collection of current academic journals. In addition to some of the more familiar titles (The Chronicle of Higher Education, of course, and College Teaching), we carry The Adjunct Advocate, Women in Higher Education, Liberal Education, The National Teaching & Learning Forum, Black Issues Book Review, The Teaching Professor, and several others. Here is the complete list:
journals
If you would like copies made of any of the materials in the Center, simply ask the student assistant next door in Solms 211. And if at any time you would like to reserve the room for a meeting or a class, just call (921 5991) or e-mail (williape@mail.armstrong.edu) Peggy Williams and let her know when.