March 2000

As Senate President over the past year, I have been involved in a great number of meetings and have been on the receiving end of an even greater number of email messages and phone calls.  Oftentimes, in one way or another, the meetings and messages concern ways to improve USC.  Each of us has our own suggestions about various needs of the university.  More

Teaching Tips: Spicing Up Large Classes
by Sharon Marie Carnicke and Erwin Chemerinsky

Attention to self-presentation and incorporation of discussion can energize large classes.  Below we offer a few suggestions that have come from workshops conducted by the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching.  More

Task Force Envisions And Encourages Inter-Disciplinary Education
interview with Hilary M. Schor

Hilary M. Schor chairs the joint Provost/Academic Senate Task Force on inter-disciplinary research and teaching, which is currently studying the status of and structure for the development of inter-disciplinary scholarly activity among faculty and students at USC.  More

  Forum Book Review: Faculty of Color in Academe
by Estela Mara Bensimon