TY - BOOK AU - Epp,Roger AU - Spellman,Bill AU - Schlosser,Milton AU - Wheeler,Teresa TI - Roads taken: the professorial life, scholarship in place, and the public good SN - 9781612481050 AV - LB1778 .R63 2014eb U1 - 378.1/25 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Kirksville, Missouri PB - Truman State University Press KW - College teachers KW - Attitudes KW - College teaching KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Common good KW - Education, Higher KW - Aims and objectives KW - Savoir et érudition KW - Bien commun KW - Enseignement supérieur KW - Finalités KW - EDUCATION KW - Higher KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; A place where ideas matter; Joel Sipress, History, University of Wisconsin/Superior --; Detours, intersections, and a few bumps in the road; Therese Seibert, Sociology, Keene State College --; The outsiders : undergraduate research in a liberal arts institution; Dylan Fischer, Ecology, The Evergreen State College --; How everything influences everything else : the strange and wonderful journey to an integrated academic life; Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Education, Eastern Connecticut State University --; Notes from an academic odd couple; Lee Rozelle and Jill Wicknick, English, Biology, Montevallo University --; "'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be"; Gary Towsley, Mathematics, State University of New York/Geneseo --; A kid for life; Quan Tran, Mathematics, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma --; Dr. Monograph : or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the liberal arts; Janet Schrunk Ericksen, English, University of Minnesota/Morris --; Music, the liberal arts, and rural identity : the not-so-straight road; Milton Schlosser, Music, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus --; What have I done?! : a Renaissance art historian finds her way in the rural Midwest; Julia Delancey, Art, Truman State University --; How one becomes what one is; Jonathan R. Cohen, Philosophy, University of Maine/Farmington --; Neither here nor there : testing the boundaries of place and pedagogy; Ellen Holmes Pearson, History, University of North Carolina/Asheville --; Finding the road back to the "last good job in America"; Kathleen Fine-Dare, Anthropology and Gender/Women's Studies, Fort Lewis College --; The liberal arts leave the ivory tower and enter the trenches; Robin Bates, English, St. Mary's College of Maryland UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=772212 ER -