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Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection
edited by Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, Michelle R. Weis

Case Listings with Abstracts

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Resource Materials

Stories for Reflective Teaching: Using Cases in Faculty Development
by Chris M. Anson

In Case You’re Writing a Case: Some Suggestions
by Kathryn Heltne Swanson

Part II: Cases about Classrooms

• Introduction
  by Carol Rutz
• Case 1: Critical Thinking or Thinking Critically
  by James H. Smith
• Case 2: Group Cases: One Professor’s Dilemma
  by Srinivasan Ragothaman
• Case 3: Judgment Day
  by Marie McNeff
• Case 4: The Loafing Letdown
  by Ronald A. Klocke
• Case 5: The Case of the Harassed Teacher
  by Tony Filipovitch and Mary McDearmon
• Case 6: Yes, Virginia, You’re in a Pickle
  by Mary R. DeMaine
• Case 7: Too Much Thinking
  by Richard Jewell,
• Case 8: Grade Expectations
  Jeannine L. Saabye
• Case 9: The Jonas Incident
  by Chris M. Anson

Part III:Cases about Departments and Institutions

• Introduction
  by Carol Rutz
• Case 10. The Academic Purist
  by Deborah Petersen-Perlman
• Case 11. Best in the Class
  by Carol Rutz
• Case 12. The Fly in the Ointment
  by James Swanson
• Case 13. Risky Business
  by Lesley K. Cafarelli
• Case 14. To ‘B’ or Not to ‘B’: A Case of Academic Appeal
  by Benedict J. Arogyaswamy,
• Case 15. To Tell or Not To Tell
  by Shamsul Huda, Argiro L. Morgan, and William Serban
• Case 16. Unpopular Senior Professor
  by Bruce L. Smith
• Case 17. Wendy Lamb
  by Tom Mason and Melissa Shepard
• Case 18. Assessment at Woebeone State
  by Lesley K. Cafarelli
• Case 19. Is Something Rotten in Denmark?
  by Rebecca Kamm
• Case 20. Teaching Semantics: Euphemisms, Taboos, and Obscenities
  by Richard Betting

Part IV: Cases about the Changing Culture As It Affects Higher Education

• Introduction
  by Carol Rutz
• Case 21. The Cancer Student
  by Carol Rutz
• Case 22. Facing the Reality of Students’ Preparation and Research Skills
  by Deborah Petersen-Perlman and Marilyn Russell-Bogle
• Case 23. Faltering Steps under the Americans with Disabilities Act
  by Richard W. Metcalf
• Case 24. Jalen
  by Eugene Hermitte and Phyllis Worthy Dawkins
• Case 25. Special Circumstances
  by Jeannine L. Saabye, University of Mary
• Case 26. They’re Acting Really Squirrelly
  by Thomas D. Peacock
• Case 27. Organic Lab Is Hell
  by Maria C. Milletti and Elva Mae Nicholson
• Case 28. Who’s Learning?
  by Beverly J. Stratton
• Case 29. Dissin’ the Prof
  by Susan J. Huber

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