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1 Balancing Scholarship & Teaching: A Modest Proposal Lee Clarke Department of Sociology Rutgers University leeclarke.com

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

4 Invisible teachers

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6 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

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

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9 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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