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…”
Invisible teachers
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
What have those departments done? Faced the major contradiction Taken ownership of responsibilities to graduate and undergraduate students Thumbed their noses at conventional wisdom
What is to be done? Courses on scholarship/teaching…at the departmental level Leadership & institutional support for “the cause” Rutgers Normal?