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Introductory Comments About Being a Scholar:

Realize that you are embarking on a way of life, not a job. It’s not all-consuming, but all-connected.

Work smart as well as hard. Choose your burdens and your battles.

You are a scholar—contributing to a discipline, no longer just a learner, but a member.

Develop original research—making, not churning.

Developing your distinctive voice—you ought to be able to say what you do—so you become the “go to” person. Jan is the go-to person for religion, rural resource management and worldview (secular) and social structures and environment in religious circles. Helen is the go to person for religion and feminism (secular) and communication and feminism in religious circles.

Have a research program—a line of thought you’re pursuing, not just a cluster of individual projects.

Give to the discipline as well as take—that means not just doing your own writing, but interacting with the community—reviewing for journals, for grants, serve on committees, take office, organizing conferences and paper sessions.

Networking—being a colleague. Local level—encouraging your colleagues and sharing your research with them. Promote them! Just show up at their events. At a larger level, look for people who care about what you care about and make friends.

Integrate your teaching and scholarship—teach a class from a point of view and assign book reports of books germane to your scholarship.

Develop appropriate boundaries—say no to what doesn’t invigorate you or your line of research. This will change from season to season of your life.

Links to Campus Resources:

Websites Related to Scholarship, Pedagogy, Grants, and Research Funding:

Academic Integrity: www.academicintegrity.org

Academic Leader Newsletter: www.magnapubs.com/archive/al/index.html

Accreditation: www.chea.org

Active Learning: edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/Active/ActiveLearning.html

Adjunct Advocate Magazine:www.adjunctnation.com

Adjunct Faculty Issues:www.adjunctsolutions.com

Adventure Education: www.pa.org

Bloom's Taxonomy: chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html

Case Method: www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/programs/wcl/casemethod/resources/teaching

Change Magazine: www.aahe.org/change/

Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com

Civility in Class: http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_computing/core/civility.html

Classroom Assessment Techniques: www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/catmain.html

Classroom Management: www.psu.edu/celt/PST/managing.html

Collaborative Learning: www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/cl1/CL/doingcl/DCL1.asp

Cooperative Learning: www.clcrc.com

Copyright Issues: www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html

Corporate Universities: www.corpu.com

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities: www.cccu.org

Critical Thinking: www.criticalthinking.org

Department Chair Resources: www.acenet.edu/resources/chairs

Discussion Facilitation: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/faqdisc.html

Diversity in Higher Education: www.diversityweb.org

Emotional Intelligence: www.eiconsortium.org

ESL Students:www.eslcafe.com

Ethics in Higher Education: www.uvsc.edu/ethics/curriculum/education

Federal Ed. Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA): www.edlaw.net/service/ferpareg.html

First Generation Students:www.gseis.ucla.edu/ERIC/bibs/first.html

How People Learn: www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/index.html

Humor in Teaching: www.lovedungeon.net/humor/college/collegehomemenu.html

Icebreakers: adulted.about.com/cs/icebreakers

The Independent CollegesOffice (ICO): www.ico-dc.com

International Higher Education: www.higher-ed.org/international

International Professor Resources: www.ibiblio.org/ucis/links.html

nternational Student Resources: www.internationalstudent.com

Internet Usage: www.learnthenet.com

Large Classes: www.cte.umd.edu/library/lcn

Learning Students' Names: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/names.html 

Learning Styles Models:

Lecturing Skills: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/lectskills.html

Legal Issues: www.aaup.org/Legal

Linking Teaching & Research: www.brookes.ac.uk/genericlink

Mentoring of Faculty: www.aahe.org/pubs/making.htm

Motivating Students: teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/sectionlists/sect20.html

Multiple Intelligences: www.surfaquarium.com/im.htm

Nat'l Council for Staff, Program & Organizational Development: www.ncspod.org

Nat'l Teaching & Learning Forum: www.ntlf.com

Online Teaching: www.utexas.edu/world/lecture

Peer Led Team Learning: www.pltl.org

Planning Teaching Spaces: www.dartmouth.edu/~collab/index.html

PowerPoint Usage: www.actden.com/pp

Problem Based Learning: www.udel.edu/pbl

Professional & Organizational Development Network: listserv.nd.edu/archives/pod.html

Quotations on College Teaching: atech2.wku.edu/ctl/Quotes

Retention of Students: www.collegeways.com

Rubric Creation: projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/rubrics/rubrics.html

Service Learning: www.servicelearning.org

Socratic Method: www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/orientation/socratic.html

Student Journal Writing: www.tss.uoguelph.ca/onlineres/journal_writing.htm

Student Portfolios: www.elon.edu/students/portfolio

Student Ratings: www.ratemyprofessors.com

Students with Disabilities: www.udel.edu/cte/disabilities.htm

Study Abroad: www.hot.ee/highereducation

Study Skills: www.uic.edu/depts/counselctr/ace/practic1.htm

Syllabus Magazine: www.syllabus.com

Teaching Goals Inventory: www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi

Teaching & Learning Centers: www.ku.edu/~cte/resources/websites/unitedstates.html

Teaching Portfolios: www.usask.ca/tlc/teaching_portfolios/index.html

Teaching Professor Newsletter: www.magnapubs.com/archive/tp/index.html

Team Based Learning: www.teambasedlearning.org

Technology Integration: ts.mivu.org

Test Anxiety: www.couns.uiuc.edu/Brochures/testanx.htm

Test Construction: www.edu.uleth.ca/runte/tests

Tolerance: www.tolerance.org

Tomorrow’s Professor Listserv: sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof

Tools for Writers: www.toolsforwriters.com

Transactional Analysis: www.itaa-net.org

University Business Magazine: www.universitybusiness.com

Writing Across the Curriculum: mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC