Trexler Library Scuttlebutt

Bi-weekly Update from the Library
2/20/09

Faculty Center for Teaching Collection

These useful titles have just arrived in the Faculty Center for Teaching collection, located on level A of Trexler Library in the Muhlenberg Room. Enjoy!

The course syllabus : A learning-centered approach / O’Brien, Judith Grunert
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.199 G891c 2008

 

Effective grading : A tool for learning and assessment / Walvoord, Barbara E. Fassler
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.12 E68g

 

Faculty advising examined : Enhancing the potential of college faculty as advisors / edited by Kramer, Gary L.
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., 2003.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.194 F143a

 

Teaching first-year college students / Erickson, Bette LaSere
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.12 E68t

 

Unfinished agendas : New and continuing gender challenges in higher education / edited by Glazer-Raymo, Judith
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.19822 U56a

 

Using student teams in the classroom : A faculty guide / Federman Stein, Ruth, & Sandra Hurd
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., 2000.
Location: FCT – Muhl Room 378.1795 F293u

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Calendar of Events

2/20: Parkland High School AP English Library Research Day (Trexler Library Information Commons, 9:00AM-2:00PM)

2/20: Meditation Group (Trexler Library Rare Books Room, 5:00PM-6:00PM)

2/23: Notables Book Discussion Group: discussion of Louise Erdrich’s “The Painted Drum.” (Trexler Library Rare Books Room, 12:00Noon-1:00PM.)

2/23: Faculty Author Reception: Bob Croskey’s “The Legacy of Tolstoy: Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920’s” (Trexler Library Fulford Room, 4:30PM-6:00PM)

2/27: Meditation Group (Trexler Library Rare Books Room, 5:00PM-6:00PM)

3/8: Jewish Literature Discussion Group. Discussion of “The Red Cavalry” by isaac Babel. Discussion led by Sharon Albert (Trexler Library Periodicals Reading Area, 3:30PM-5:00PM).