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Posted by acastro on April 4, 2010
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This week’s articles address scholarship specifically within community college environments. Prager’s article “Scholarship Matters” tells how community college faculty members, though dominant in the educating of first- and second-year students, have little presence outside their own classrooms. Meanwhile, Sperling’s article “How Community Colleges Understand the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” describes an exception to that argument at Middlesex Community College, where SoTL is prominent.
Prager’s article compares and contrasts various scenarios regarding teachers of first- and second-year students (e.g., faculty at schools associated with four-year universities versus strictly two-year schools). It seems Pennsylvania University (PSU) and City Universities of New York (CUNY) have integrated the scholarship of teaching and learning into their ways of life. Expectations that SoTL is valued and actually used in a quantifiable manner have led to a culture that embraces SoTL. Meanwhile, most other schools consider themselves “teaching schools”.
The rest of my commentary was lost to malfunctioning USB drive. I will have to return to the articles to remember the points I made and add them here at a later time.
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