My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Another item from Stephen’s Lighthouse is a new book written by a college professor who went back to school. Rebekah Nathan wrote My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, which was just published in August 2005 by Cornell University Press. Twelve OhioLINK schools either have it or have it on order. Of course they are all checked out right now.
[...] I had written about Rebekah Nathan’s book, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, in an earlier blog entry. The author takes a year sabbatical from teaching sociology at a state university and enrolls as a freshman at her own institution. The results of her ethnographic study are interesting, though not necessarily surprising. She only refers to using a library on a couple of occasions. She does confirm that students are pressed for time and take “short cuts” to get their work done. She did cover the topic of plagiarism pretty well. [...]