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Roads taken : the professorial life, scholarship in place, and the public good / edited by Roger Epp and Bill Spellman ; cover photograph by Milton Schlosser ; cover design Teresa Wheeler.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Roads taken (2014)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Attitudes.
- College teachers.
- College teaching.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Common good.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Public liberal arts colleges are higher education's gems, yet their intimate campus settings and locations outside of the intellectual-cultural capitals challenge the traditional rhythm of academic careers. Professors trained at elite research institutions, usually located in large urban centres, must adapt to the holistic undergraduate education emphasised at colleges often located in smaller communities. The authors in this collection serve as pathfinders and exemplars for academic careers that integrate teaching, scholarship, and citizenship, rooted in place. Their stories demonstrate that the noblest traditions of higher education might be lived out most meaningfully on small, liberal arts campuses. Contributors include Robin Bates, Jonathan R. Cohen, Julia DeLancey, Roger Epp, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Dylan Fischer, Ellen Holmes Pearson, Lee Rozelle, Milton Schlosser, M Therese Seibert, Joel Sipress, Bill Spellman, Gary Towsley, Quan Tran, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Joseph Urgo, and Jill Wicknick.
- Contents:
- ""Book Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Roads Taken (Epp & Spellman)""; ""Ch1: A Place Where Ideas Matter (Sipress)""; ""Ch2: Detours, Intersections, and a Few Bumps in the Road (Seibert)""; ""Ch3: The Outsiders (Fischer)""; ""Ch4: How Everything Influences Everything Else (Trawick-Smith)""; ""Ch5: Notes from an Academic Odd Couple (Rozelle & Wicknick)""; ""Ch6: ""'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be"" (Towsley)""; ""Ch7: A Kid for Life (Tran)""; ""Ch8: Dr. Monograph
- or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Liberal Arts (Ericksen)""""Ch9: Music, the Liberal Arts, and Rural Identity (Schlosser)""; ""Ch10: What Have I Done?! (DeLancey)""; ""Ch11: How One Becomes What One Is (Cohen)""; ""Ch12: Neither Here nor There (Pearson)""; ""Ch13: Finding the Road Back to the ""Last Good Job in America"" (Fine-Dare)""; ""Ch14: The Liberal Arts Leave the Ivory Tower and Enter the Trenches (Bates)""; ""Afterword: The Road Taken and the Difference It Makes (Urgo)""; ""Notes on Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61248-105-1
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