News, Articles, &
Opinions: 2000 and 2001


Faculty Lecture: Dr. Mark Finlay
on Edison, Ford, & Rubber (Nov. 14)

Call for eCore Course Development:
Spring & Summer 2002

2002 International Faculty
Development Seminars (CIEE)

New USG Chancellor: Thomas Meredith
(Oct. 25, 2001)

Chancellor's Report to the BOR
(12 Oct. 2001)

Faculty Lecture: George Pruden on
"The Chinese Century"--24 Oct. at 12:15

Southern-style Speech in Peril
(Wash. Post, 7 Oct. 2001)

College: End of the Golden Age
(NY Rev. of Books, 18 Oct. 2001)

Finalists for Chancellor's Search
(USG 10 Oct. 2001)

Gignilliat Professorship for 2002

Internal Grants Workshop: 12:15 in
UH 129 on Monday, Sep. 17

CALLS FOR PROPOSALS & CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fall 2001/Spring 2002

2002-2003 Fulbright awards, programs, seminars

USG Study-Abroad Catalog 2001-2001

Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher Lectureship

Faculty Lecture Series 2001-2002

Updated: Scholarship of Teaching (Aug. 22)

BOR's New Strategic Plan

Updated: The SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING page

SYLLABI: "Creating the Elegant Syllabus";
"Exemplary Syllabi Online" (NEA); "Constructing
a Syllabus" (Brown University)

New USG SCOUT site: Sharing Content
Online for University Teaching

New web site for AASU's V.P. Search

"Making Quality Work": improving the quality
of teaching & learning, by economist William Massey

FACULTY FIELD TRIPS: 2001-2002

FACULTY HOME PAGES (updated 24 July 2001)

ACLS Fellowships for research in the
humanities (application deadline: Oct. 1.)

The CAMPUS RESOURCES page has
been updated. (10 July 2001)

Chronicle Colloquy: "Plagiarism & Plagiarism
Detection Go High Tech" (6 July)

"Essential Demographics of Today's College
Students,"  by Edmund Hansen

Telecourses continue to grow in popularity
(Chronicle, 9 July)

NEW:  Problem-Based Learning

The Teaching & Learning page
has been updated and expanded (June 2001)

"An Introduction to Classroom Assessment
Techniques" (Penn State)

"Why Committees Don't Work: Creating a Structure
for Change" (Academe Online, May-June 2001)

"System Grant Focuses on AASU Student's
Work" (System Supplement, Spring 2001)

ETS ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP:
June 20, 1-3 p.m., UH 106

"Academic Freedom and the Ownership of
Course Materials" (Donna Demac, AAUP)

"Plagiarism and the Web," by Bruce Leland

PlanetRider: The Best Travel Sites

Standards for USG Web Pages

Dr. Evelyn Dandy (Education) on advisory
committee to assist USG chancellor search

Virtual Training Suite (UK): "Free tutorials on
the Web for students, lecturers, and researchers."

University of Bums on Seats

2002-2003 Fulbright Award Opportunities

How to resuscitate a frozen chicken

"What Academic Novels Tell Us about Teaching,"
by Dr. Lorie Roth (19 Jan. 2001)

NEW ISSUES: Sabbaticals & the Business of Education

Chancellor Portch Resigns (9 May 2001)

Hirings and Tenurings: 2000-2001
(Lingua Franca May/June 2001)

Faculty Home Pages

AAUW SAVANNAH SPRING BOOK SALE
MAY 3 - 6, 2001, at OGLETHORPE MALL

Faculty Awards: Nomination Deadline Extended to May 4

Faculty Committee Reports for 2000-2001

AASU Strategic Plan (draft, 18 April 2001)

MIT to Provide Free Course Materials on the Web
(CNNFYI.com, 4 April 2001)

"Who Shall Have the Moral Courage to Heal Racism?"
(Stokes Memorial Lecture at noon on Apr. 20) 

Campaign Against Grade Inflation
(Chronicle's Colloquy Transcripts, 5 April 2001)

Call for eCore Course Development Nominations
(deadline 6 April 2001)

Beyond the Course Pack: Putting Copyrighted Material
Online (Academe Online, Jan.-Feb. 2001)

WebCT Cites USG eCore Courses as Exemplary
(USG News, 23 March 2001)

Legislative Update: USG's Salary Recommendations Approved

BOXMIND™: "the world's first E-lecture series" 

President's Symposium on Teaching & Learning (30 Mar. 2001):
PROGRAM of events is now online.

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: Brown Bag Discussion
of Strategies to Improve Student Retention
(Notes and readings now online)
(21 March 2001)

Butler Named New Vice Chancellor (USG News)

EXPANDED: Travel-Related Web Sites

NEW C-SPAN Series on American Writers 

NEW: Currency Exchange Calculator at Travel Resources

Join AASU's new Scholarship of Teaching Round Table

Legislative Update (5 Mar. 2001)

"Exciting New Product": AUTOMATIC PROFESSOR MACHINE

Try out the new Faculty Bulletin Board (1 Mar. 2001)

The Thankless Job of a Department Chair (Chronicle 2 Mar. 2001)

AASU Faculty Awards: Past Recipients and Nomination Guidelines

AASU Faculty Forum on the Meaning of a "Liberal Education":
Forum Handout now available online.

Is Anyone Making Money on Distance Education?
(Chronicle 16 Feb. 2001)

Review of Three New Academic Novels (Chronicle, Feb 16, 2001)

Update on Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Legal Overview
(AAUP January 2001)

AASU Teaching & Learning Project Proposal

OFF-CAMPUS RESOURCES: ISSUES
(Academic Freedom, Ethnic & Gender Issues, et al.)

State-by-state report card for higher education
(National Center for Public Policy & Higher Education)

AASU Self Study

Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation
(American Council on Eucation, pdf format)

HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE NETWORK

NEW at OFF-CAMPUS RESOURCES: ISSUES
(Academic Freedom, Ethnic & Gender Issues, et al.)

Principles of Good Practice: Supporting Early Career Faculty
(Mary Deane Sorcinelli, AAHE 2000)

Report on the Growing Use of Part-time Faculty
(American Historical Association)
Chronicle Colloquy: Part-time Faculty in the Humanities

Faculty Salaries (1999-2000) at 1,700 Institutions
(AAUP in Chronicle  Facts & Figures)

HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE NETWORK

Bookworm at Lingua Franca

AASU Position Announcement: Special Asst. to the V.P. for
Academic Affairs--International Education

"The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism," Todd Gitlin
(Chronicle 8 Dec. 2000)

NEW at OFF-CAMPUS RESOURCES: ISSUES
(Academic Freedom, Ethnic & Gender Issues, et al.)

Tough Times for State Colleges: Facing New Missions & Rivals,
State Colleges Seek a Makeover (Chronicle 17 Nov. 2000)

SearchEdu.com (Searchable database of over
20-million university and education pages)

Highest USG SAT Scores Ever Recorded Surpass National Average
(USG News Release, 15 Nov. 2000)

USG Wins National Security Grant to Teach Japanese,
Russian, and Chinese Languages Online
(University System of Georgia News, 14 Nov. 2000)


Two essays in The Chronicle explore the issue of academics and their own personal wealth:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is accepting grant applications for research on
whether, and how, technology can enhance higher education in cost-effective ways. 
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2001. 

FATHOM, the for-profit knowledge company started by Columbia University,
has opened what officials are calling a beta version of the Fathom Web site,
which offers 450 feature articles and 80,000 reference articles.

Principles of Good Practice: Supporting Early Career Faculty
(Mary Deane Sorcinelli, AAHE 2000)

ICAPP SURVEYS BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL
CLIMATE FOR GEORGIA'S TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
(University System of Georgia News, 25 Oct. 2000)

NEW   Teaching Goals Inventory  (U of Iowa)

BOR Calls for Periodic Academic Program Reviews
(University System of Georgia News, Oct. 11, 2000)

Intellectual Workers & Essential Freedoms
by Christopher Edley, Jr. (Academe Sep.-Oct. 2000)

Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up?
A review of Can We Wear Our Pearls and Still Be Feminists?: Memoirs of a
Campus Struggle, by Joan D. Mandle (University of Missouri Press, 2000)
(Chronicle 6 October 2000)

Linda Wright's Interdisciplinary Health Professions
Case Discussion Project  (WebCT News)

The Internet, Computing, & Academe: Future Directions
(transcript of colloquy)

Board of Regents Forms Technology Committee
(5 October 2000)

The State of Women's Studies
Transcript of online colloquy.
(Chronicle 4 October 2000)

the scholarship of teaching (new resources) 

Distance Learning Course Required at Fairleigh Dickinson U
(Chronicle, 4 October 2000)

Online Learning Goes the Distance: A Million Distance Learners & Growing
(ComputerUser, 3 October 2000)

Three Decades of Lessons On Teaching and Learning:
A new book chronicles Change magazine’s reports on higher education
(AAHE Bulletin, September 2000)

Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, & Yale Form Distance Learning Alliance
(Chronicle, 25 September 2000)

Creating & Supporting Interdisciplinary Programs
(University Business Daily, 20 September 2000)

Chancellor Stephen R. Portch, "State of the System"
(13 September 2000)

BOARD OF REGENTS FY 2002 BUDGET REQUEST EMPHASIZES
TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, & AND ACCOUNTABILITY
(USG News Release, 12 September 2000)

Professors try to keep up with cyberage
"Columbia University's new media center helps technophobic
teachers create multimedia lectures and course Web sites"
(Christian Science Monitor)

Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, & the
Ways People Learn (PDF version)
(Change March/April 2000)

Customers & Markets: The Cuss Words of Academe
(Change, September/October 1998)

Flunking the Test: The Dismal Record of Student Evaluations
(Paul Trout, Academe Online, July-August 2000)

IS BAD WRITING NECESSARY?
George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature
(Lingua Franca, Dec./Jan. 2000)

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