Fresh out of graduate school and desperate to pay off her student
loans, Nicole Adams joins the faculty at Higher State U, a small
university with a dubious past located in the middle of the
Midwest. On her second day of classes as a new assistant professor
of philosophy, still flustered and disoriented, Nicole is plunged
into a campus-wide mystery. Someone has ransacked the office she
shares with the ill-tempered R. Reynolds Raskin, the department's
senior professor, and he has since disappeared. Two weeks later,
with Raskin still missing, Nicole receives a threatening phone call
. . .Read one way, this is an entertaining parody of an academic
mystery and a humorous take on academic life. Turning the book
upside down reveals another purpose. Each chapter is constructed as
an informal case study/discussion story, as is made manifest by a
series of discussion questions intended for faculty development,
new faculty orientation, and conversations among faculty,
administrators, and academic staff. As the mystery unfolds, each
chapter finds Nicole encountering challenging situations-such as,
the first day of class, student incivility, teaching evaluations,
peer observation, academic assessment, the scholarship of teaching
and learning, faculty and student rights and responsibilities, core
curricula, and tenure standards. This little book can be read and
used both ways: as pure entertainment and as a series of informal
case studies, spiced with humor, to help break down academic
barriers and promote spirited discussions
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