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NISOD Innovation Abstracts Vol. XXVIII No. 11 & 12


Vol. XXVIII, No. 11—“The Jefferson Café: An Adventure of the Mind,” by Francine Jamin, Professor of English and Director of Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement, at Montgomery College (MD), describes a highly successful strategy for engaging diverse participants in exploring ideas and viewpoints without advocating application or action…just opportunities to be involved in thoughtful and reflective dialogue. The cafés attract large numbers of “customers” who respond to changing facilitators and bring the community into discussions about cutting-edge, compelling issues.

Vol. XXVIII, No. 12—In “Setting the Bar: Creating a Departmental Exam for Freshmen Composition,” Susan Guzman-Trevino, doctoral student in the Community College Leadership Program at The University of Texas, describes a year-long process by which an English department standardized its array of freshmen composition courses—reaping benefits of full- and part-time faculty collaboration, benchmarking pre- and post-tests, collecting critical data about students’ skills, and stimulating ongoing and important conversations about improvements to the design and teaching strategies.

Richard Degus
Executive Assistant to the President
04/20/2006


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