International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 1, Number 2, 2007

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Book Review

Excerpt

Engaging Departments:  Moving Faculty Culture From Private to Public, Individual to Collective Focus for the Common Good
Kevin Kecskes, Editor (Jossey-Bass, 2006)

Planning a university service learning program without reading Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture From Private to Public, Individual to Collective Focus for the Common Good is like starting to build a house with no tools or blueprints.  And service learning programs like the ones described in this book can inspire SoTL projects on service learning.

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Reviewer's Bio

Barbara Cole
Argosy University
San Francisco, California, USA
barbaracole2000@yahoo.com

Following the completion of my doctorate at the University of Oregon, I worked in corporate, public and private employment which grounded me for teaching graduate classes in both the Business and Education Departments of Argosy University/San Francisco. Having taught management in China, Pakistan, and Ecuador, I remain interested in management in developing countries. I hope to complete my Fulbright Senior Specialist award within the year.

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International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is a publication of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.