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This book is a result of an interdisciplinary effort by Syracuse University's Future Professoriate Program (FPP) who invited authors to explore ideas on how institutions can better focus on the needs and perspectives of scholars and students with disabilities. The authors come from a variety of disciplines and have engaged in disability scholarship, activism, and accommodation in their classes. Further, it provides their personal experiences and methods for creating accessible and challenging learning environments. The book includes a resource guide, which makes classrooms inclusive, and integrates the disability perspective into the curricula.

Pedagogy, not Policing is born out of a shared belief in the twin values of quality teaching and community effort. Bringing together the voices of graduate and undergraduate students, teaching assistants, faculty, and other members of university communities, it asks and addresses such questions as what academic integrity (AI) is, what roles it plays in our colleges and universities, whom it serves, and what practices nourish or jeopardize it. The contributors challenge what we think we know about AI while offering pragmatic, concrete tools for how to promote it in the classroom.

Learning communities are now an integral part of campus life at colleges and universities. They help to create smooth transitions for first-year students, positively influencing intellectual and social development and leading to greater satisfaction with the undergraduate experience. The essays collected here bring into focus the challenges, lessons, and practices that emerge from this effort. The first section of the book examines the history of the learning community movement and strategies for assessing the effectiveness of programs. The second shows learning communities in operation from a variety of perspectives.

Recent developments in academic mentoring have challenged long-standing conceptions of the mentor-mentee relationship as a top-down, wisdom-bestowing proposition. There is growing awareness that for the majority of their working lives, academics are both mentors and mentees, and have shifting needs and obligations as their careers progress. That is, they occupy a mentoring continuum whose navigation requires effort, reflection, and good faith. This book offers theoretical and practical tools to help them on their way and indicates how institutional resources can be mobilized in support. Topics include: Peer mentoringEffective student/faculty/administrative collaborationsWeb-facilitated mentoringNonacademic career preparationTeaching as an ongoing area of professional developmentNegotiating difference in mentor-mentee relationshipsTransitioning between dissimilar institutionsThe complex interaction of role modeling and mentoringMentee agency and responsibility

One of the most significant achievements in US higher education during the latter half of the twentieth century was the increasing access enjoyed by historically marginalized populations, including women, people of color, and the poor and working class. With this achievement, however, has come a growing population of first generation students, including first-generation graduate students and faculty members, who struggle at times to navigate unfamiliar territory. This book offers insight into the challenges of first-generation status, as well as practical tools for navigating the halls of the academy for both academics and their institutional allies.