April 2007 Library Highlights

	New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. Christopher J. Lucas and John W. Murry, Jr.		The Teaching Portfolio. Peter Seldin.
New Faculty offers a useful compendium of "survival" advice for the faculty newcomer on a variety of subjects: practical tips on classroom teaching, student performance evaluation, detailed advice on grant-writing, student advising, professional service, and publishing.  Beginning faculty members--and possibly their more experienced colleagues as well--will find this lively guidebook both informative and thought-provoking. Quoted from the Palgrave website: www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0312295375		This new edition continues its focus on self-reflection and documenting teaching performance, and has also been significantly revised and expanded.  Its straightforward approach, practical suggestions, step-by-step instructions, and field-tested recommendations will prove invaluable to those involved in evaluating and improving teaching. Quoted from the backcover (Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company Inc., 2004.)
	Assessing Student Learning. Linda Suskie		Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Emily Toth
This book summarizes current thinking on the practice of assessing student learning in a comprehensive, accessible and useful fasion.  Short on background and theory and long on practical advice, this is a plainspoken, informally written book designed to provide sensible guidance for assessment practioners on virtually all aspects of student assessment, and for faculty who simply want to improve assessments within their classes. Quoted for the backcover (Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company Inc., 2004.)		Ms. Mentor's readers will find answers to the secret queries they were afraid to ask anyone else.  They'll discover what it really takes to get tenure; what to wear to academic occasions; when to snicker, when to hide, what to eat, and when to sue.  They'll find out how to get firmly planted in the rich red earth of tenure.  They'll learn why lunch is the most important meal of the day. Quoted from the University of Pennsylvania Press website: www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1922.html

Other new books: April 2007
Gaff, Jerry G. New Life for the College Curriculum. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991.

Menges, Robert J. and Associates. Faculty in New Jobs. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

Stanley, Christine A. ed. Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities. Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA 2006.

Zubizarreta, John. The Learning Portfolio. Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 2004.

Other recently acquired books on diversity
Berry, Theodorea Regina, and Nathalie D. Mizelle, ed. From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas within the Academy. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2006.

Bracken, Susan J., Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane R. Dean, ed. The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2006.

Cooper, Tuesday L. The Sista’ Network. Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 2006.

Lederman, Muriel and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. The Gender and Science Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

Macdonald, Amie A. and Susan Sanchez-Casal. Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference. New York: Macmillan, 2002.

Moody, JoAnn. Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

Trifonas, Peter Pericles. Pedagogies of Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Change. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Vera, Joe R. Feagin Hernan and Nikitah Imani. The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Willie, Sarah Susannah. Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Other recently acquired books on disciplinary learning and learning assessment
Breschiani, Marilee J. Outcomes-Based Academic and Co-Curricular Program Review: A Compilation of Institutional Good Practices. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2006.

Hickey, Dona and Donna Reiss, ed. Learning Literature in an Era of Change: Innovations in Teaching. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2000.

Leanmson, Robert. Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 1999.

Riordan, Tim, and James Roth, ed. Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning: Teaching the Practice of the Disciplines. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2005.

Stevens, Dannelle D., and Antonia J. Levi. Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback and Promote Student Learning. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2005.