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Undergraduate Task Force Report:

Balancing Scholarship & Teaching: A Modest Proposal Lee Clarke Department of Sociology Rutgers University leeclarke.com. Undergraduate Task Force Report:. Fundamental Principle: “Undergraduate education at Rutgers should be organized around academic inquiry grounded in active research…”.

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Undergraduate Task Force Report:

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  1. Balancing Scholarship & Teaching:A Modest ProposalLee ClarkeDepartment of SociologyRutgers Universityleeclarke.com

  2. Undergraduate Task Force Report: Fundamental Principle: “Undergraduate education at Rutgers should be organized around academic inquiry grounded in active research…”

  3. Invisible teachers

  4. Some top sociology departments, required • Arizona – “Teaching Practicum” • UNC – “Seminar on the Teaching of Sociology” • Northwestern – “College Teaching” • NYU – “Sociology Of Teaching And Learning” • Duke – part of 2 semester course on professional issues

  5. What have those departments done? • Faced the major contradiction • Taken ownership of responsibilities to graduate and undergraduate students • Thumbed their noses at conventional wisdom

  6. What is to be done? • Courses on scholarship/teaching…at the departmental level • Leadership & institutional support for “the cause” • Rutgers Normal?

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