A Rollins College (Florida) professor's survey of alumni concerning their memories of the institution elicited vivid and specific character narratives about faculty, pointing up the important role of faculty in students' college experience. The narratives reflected students' discovery of the pleasure of ideas, realization of teachers' concern for…

The author relates the quality of her educational experiences and the influence of her college teachers that led her to pursue graduate degrees. She criticizes the educational philosophy underlying the University of Alberta (Canada) publication, "Quality First," that narrowly envisions the future of higher education in Canada. (LP)

As more university courses are offered online educators have much to learn regarding how to use this technology to facilitate effective learning. Some educators have mastered online teaching and are regarded by their students as highly effective. Researchers in this study consulted graduate students who had completed their degrees by online…

A professor and dean emeritus at a school of social services describes a typical day, highlighting the variety of constituencies served (administrative services, academic vice president, faculty, student association, donors, city administration, public service organizations, local hospital, alumni), tasks to be accomplished, issues to be…

A Boise State University (Idaho) faculty member teaching in a new master's program in business administration in a Vietnamese university chronicles his two-week stay and his experiences with the students and his work. A postscript tells briefly of the students' stay in Idaho for final coursework and an internship. (MSE)

A retired academic describes the process by which he became interested in the profession of teaching and comments on college teaching as a career, focusing on the satisfactions of the college environment, rewards of academic work, and the pleasure of sharing intellectual excitement with peers. (MSE)

This article offers a profile of Dr. Andy Chen, an individual from Taiwan with learning disabilities who became an assistant professor of accounting at Northeastern Illinois University. The interview follows his progress through school, college, military service, and postgraduate work and describes learning strategies he developed to deal with his…

Explored several Holmes Scholars' perceptions regarding the Holmes Scholars Network's influence upon their career development, examining conditions that affected entry into teaching. Four participant researchers collaboratively examined their personal narratives and research texts. Results found three themes: mapping new destinations, surviving in…

This article, based on a larger, autoethnographic qualitative research project, focuses on the first-hand experiences of 27 faculty of color teaching in predominantly White colleges and universities. The 27 faculty represented a variety of institutions, disciplines, academic titles, and ranks. They identified themselves as African American,…

This document contains an introduction to a group of papers in which the authors/professors who have designed and taught graduate or undergraduate courses in educational technology engage readers in the ideas of narrative as a part of teaching. The instructors also encourage readers to consider alternate approaches to teaching and learning that…

This collection of 19 essays is organized into a narrative of the teaching-research dilemma. The essays include: (1) "Struggling With Balance" (Cynthia V. Fukami); (2) "My Career as a Teacher: Promise, Failure, Redemption" (Howard E. Aldrich); (3) "Teaching and Research: A Puzzling Dichotomy" (Barbara A. Gutek); (4)…

This report describes how knowledge and skills learned in the Tavistock "Observation" course were applied to psychodynamic focused consultancy in England's Open University. Questions raised include the therapeutic and educational impact institutions may have on staff. The report explains how the Observational Course was important in…

This paper recounts how two university colleagues, a business faculty member and a foreign language faculty member, benefited from their interdisciplinary contact as student and as teacher. Mutual anxieties, new language learning techniques using computers, and culture are discussed in a stylized dialogue between the two faculty members. From the…

Narrative research creates such political issues as validation of narrative knowledge, relationships of power and authority, and distinction between the public and private domains. Issues examined are the politics of research in a "narrative" mode, which challenges traditional research; issues of power in collaborative research…

Examines the problems of "truth" in the use of narratives to study teaching, highlighting the themes of universality and control that have dominated the study of teaching and conceptions of relationships between research and social policy. The paper examines issues underlying debates over proper understanding of narrative to promote…