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Thought & Action Journal

Fall 2007

Table of Contents

Overview
Con Lehane

Workload Issues and Measures of Faculty Productivity
Barbara K. Townsend and Vicki J. Rosser

Shaping the Professoriate One Class at a Time
Rita Sommers-Flanagan and Donald P. Christi

What Counts as Assessment in the 21st Century?
Ken Buckman

Smart Classrooms Cannot Replace Remarkable Professors
Miles Groth

When the Academic World and the Real World Meet
David Svetlik

Special Focus: Will the Past Define the Future?

Expectations and Reality in American Higher Education
John R. Thelin

NEA Higher Education: 150 Years and Growing
Christine Maitland

Academic Freedom and the Liberation of the Nation's Faculty
Michael S. Pak

NEA and the Educational Policies Commission
Wayne Urban

The Truman Commission's Vision on the Future
Philo A. Hutcheson

The Honorable Past and Uncertain Future of the Nation's HBCUs
M. Christopher Brown II and Ronyelle Bertrand Ricard

Women of Color in American Higher Education
Stephanie Y. Evans

Reviews
The Continuing Class Divide
A Review of Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
by Peter Sacks
Reviewed by: Caroline Eick

Goodbye, Professor Chips
A Review of What Ever Happened to the Faculty? Drift and Decision in Higher Education
By Mary Burgan
Reviewed by Gary Rhoades

Le plus ça change...
A Review of What's Happening to Public Higher Education?
By Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Reviewed by Mark F. Smith

Champions of Freedom
A Review of Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History
by Stephanie Y. Evans

Reviewed by Marybeth Gasman

Letters
Letters to the editor


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Winter 2001-2002
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