Faculty of the Future Panel @ the AAC&U Meeting
Today, during the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel entitled, “Faculty of the Future: Voices from the Next Generation,” with Netta Avineri (UCLA), Shauna Carlisle (UW), Judith Flores Carmona (U. of Utah), Elizabeth Hoover (Brown), Ilana Kramer (Long Island U.), Jonathan Rossing (Indiana U.), Wendy Wagner (U. of Maryland), and Holly West (NYU). (Learn more about each of them.)
The panel was particularly refreshing because it consisted of a Q&A-style conversation with the audience about teaching at the undergraduate level, the role of community-based learning in various disciplines, the views of today’s college students, how to retain new faculty members, and people’s perspectives on the changing American academy. I learned a lot from each of the panelists, not to mention the audience; and since our conversation this morning, I’ve been ruminating on a few things:
