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Book SynopsisAfter more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students. Fewer and fewer participated in class discussion...
Trade ReviewProfessors often complain about their students, and Rebekah Nathan used to grumble with the best of them. During lunches with colleagues, the anthropology professor would lament the intellectual malaise she saw among her pupils: how they refused to participate in class discussions, rarely read assigned texts, and seldom came to her during office hours.... So the cultural anthropologist decided to step outside the classroom and do some fieldwork. In the fall of 2002 Ms. Nathan enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student at the large public university where she teaches.... Ms. Nathan learned that being a student in the 21st century is tougher than she had imagined. After two semesters of scrambling from class to class, juggling assignments, and cramming for examinations, she had more compassion for time-crunched students, many of whom worked part-time jobs to help pay for their education.
-- 'Getting Schooled in Student Life' * The Chronicle of Higher Education *
Table of Contents1. Welcome to "AnyU"2. Life in the Dorms3. Community and Diversity4. As Others See Us5. Academically Speaking...6. The Art of College Management7. Lessons from My Year as a FreshmanAfterword: Ethics and Ethnography
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