Learning from Change

Reviews / Votes

"...provides the reader with a single rich resource from which to draw inspiration, models of good practice, and foundations upon which to build future initiatives....The collaborative work contains more than 160 excerpts and articles organized across 13 broadly defined subject areas. Each topic is introduced by experts who help the reader understand the breadth and complexity of the material presented....Although the 13 topical chapters are helpful if you are looking for specific categories, I often simply pick up this book and randomly read when I have a few moments to seek inspiration - and I don't think I have ever been disappointed. How many books can make that claim?"

AAHE Bulletin

"This book is a rich resource that has already found its way onto higher education bibliographies. DeZure frames the text with opening and closing remarks that provide noteworthy reflection on the changes in higher education over this significant period of time. Teaching and learning, she concludes, has become more "democratized," providing access and lowering barriers across nearly every line imaginable."

Journal of Chemical Engineering choice for Summer Reading 2001

"Of particular use to the Chair who is newly thinking about a specific issue--say science reform or evaluation of teaching--is that, by reading the introduction to a section and the articles and excerpts to illustrate its topic, he or she can get a quick and useful overview of the history--issues and dilemmas, innovations (both faddish and enduring), the pressures for and against change--documented over three decades in Change. This broad perspective is a rich resource for the new or younger Chair."

The Department Chair

"(This) book succeeds...as well as being a rich and absorbing read. There are many ways in which this collection could prove useful. At a minimum it is a brief and clear introduction to important debates from the last three decades concerning teaching and learning in higher education. This collection would be a very good text for a graduate seminar that prepares students for the teaching part of their vocation. Administrators...will find good summary pieces here. Similarly, staff who seek to recruit and retain diverse students for various kinds of colleges, will find much that is useful."

Teaching Theology and Religion