NOV.
16 CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FEATURES
COMMENTARY BY PRESIDENT JUDITH SHAPIRO AND ARTICLE
ON "REACTING TO THE PAST"
NEW
YORK, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2001 -- This week's Chronicle
of Higher Education features commentary
by Barnard President Judith Shapiro on tenure,
and an article on an innovative pedagogy developed
by Professor of History Mark Carnes titled "Reacting
to the Past."
In her opinion piece titled "Winning Tenure,
Losing the Thrill," Shapiro argues that colleges
and universities must think carefully about
how to make the years after tenure as rewarding
and stimulating as the years before. "Winning
tenure is the major rite of passage for an academic,
a consummation devoutly to be wished. But let
us remember that, thereafter, except for promotion
to full professor, the faculty member's career
path is relatively unmarked by changes in job
description or title." Click here to read the
full text, on The Chronicle of Higher
Education web site.
In
the article on "Reacting to the Past,"
reporter Piper Fogg observes: "Mr. Carnes, determined
to engage his students, created a new course
-- and an unusual pedagogy -- which inverts
the traditional undergraduate seminar. Called
'Reacting to the Past,' the course teaches classic
texts in philosophy by having students play
a series of games set in specific historical
periods. In each game, on the basis of its setting,
the participants take on randomly assigned roles
-- like a Jacobin in Paris during the French
Revolution, or Wan-li, an emperor in 16th-century
China. The professor then retreats to the sidelines
as his students recreate impassioned debates
that have shaped history." Click here to read
the
full text, on The Chronicle of Higher
Education web site.
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