Professor X (35 page)

1
Shirley Dickson. “Integrating Reading and Writing to Teach Compare-Contrast Text Structure: A Research-Based Methodology.”
Reading & Writing Quarterly
14 (1999): 49–79.

2
Mark Richardson. “Writing Is Not Just a Basic Skill.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
55.11 (2008): A47–8.

3
Jennifer I. Berne. “Teaching the Writing Process: Four Constructs to Consider.”
New England Reading Association Journal
40.1 (2004): 42–6.

4
Alex Reid. “Atlantic Monthly Offers Clichés of Writing Pedagogy.” Digital Digs. Weblog.
www.alex-reid.net/2008/05/atlantic-monthl.html
. 17 May 2008.

5
Mike Rose. “Teaching Remedial Writing.” Mike Rose's Blog. Weblog.
mikerosebooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/teaching-remedial-writing.html
. 8 July 2008.

1
American Association of Community Colleges, Commission on the Future of the Community Colleges.
Building Communities: A Vision for a New Century.
Washington, D.C.: American Association of Community Colleges, 1998. Quoted in Henry D. Shannon and Ronald C. Smith. “A Case for the Community College's Open Access Mission.”
New Directions for Community Colleges
136 (2006): 15–21.

2
Becky Orr. “Education Secretary Duncan Pitches Community Colleges.”
WyomingNews.com
. 19 Sept. 2009.

3
“Bill Cosby Back in Detroit to Help Schools.” Click On Detroit. 13 Sept. 2009.

4
Barack Obama. Remarks by the President on the American Graduation Initiative. Macomb Community College, Warren, Michigan, 14 July 2009. Transcribed on
www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-the-American-Graduation-Initiative-in-Warren-MI/
.

5
Susan K. Grimes and David C. Kelly. “Underprepared Community College Students: Implications of Attitudinal and Experiential Differences.”
Community College Review
27.2 (1999): 73–92.

6
John Rouse. “The Politics of Composition.”
College English
41.1 (1979): 1–12.

7
David Bartholomae. “The Study of Error.”
College Composition and Communication
31.3 (1980): 253–68.

8
Barack Obama. Remarks by the President on Innovation and Sustainable Growth. Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York, 21 Sept. 2009. Transcribed on
www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Innovation-and-Sustainable-Growthat-Hudson-Valley-Community-College/
.

1
Thomas Bailey. “Challenge and Opportunity: Rethinking the Role and Function of Developmental Education in Community College.”
New Directions for Community Colleges
145 (2009): 11–30.

2
Craig Hadden. “The Ironies of Mandatory Placement.”
Community College Journal of Research and Practice
24 (2000): 823–38.

3
Dolores Perin. “Can Community Colleges Protect Both Access and Standards? The Problem of Remediation.”
Teachers College Record
108.3 (2006): 339–73.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
Ibid.

7
Bailey. “Challenge and Opportunity.”

8
Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long. “Remediation at the Community College: Student Participation and Outcomes.”
New Directions for Community Colleges
129 (2005): 17–26.

9
David Mazella. “Blessings and Curses.” Long Eighteenth. Weblog.
http://long18th.wordpress.com
. 26 May 2008.

1
Michael Holden. “Baseless Assumptions About Students' Basic Knowledge—What Students Know (a Survey): What Can the Informationally Challenged Write Beyond Personal Narratives?”
Contemporary Education
68 (1996): 64–66.

2
Thomas Bailey. “Challenge and Opportunity: Rethinking the Role and Function of Developmental Education in Community College.”
New Directions for Community Colleges
145 (2009): 11–30.

1
Kim Barto. “Speaker Encourages Students: Carver Grad Stresses Education.”
Martinsville Bulletin,
6 Nov. 2009.

2
Abby Luby. “Bronx Teens Get a Taste of Upstate Life for a Month in Ritzy Chappaqua.”
Daily News
[New York], 29 Aug. 2009.

3
Robert Delaney. “Detroit Tigers MVP Magglio Ordóñez Funds New Scholarship for Area's Young People.”
Catholic Online,
15 Feb. 2008.

4
Michael Scherer and Nancy Gibbs. “Interview with the First Lady.”
Time,
21 May 2009.

5
“Estrella Mountain Community College Gives 50 Kindergartners College Experience.”
US Fed News,
15 Oct. 2009.

6
“Parents Enroll Newborns in State Prepaid Tuition Plan at Record Rate.”
US States News,
11 Feb. 2008.

7
Jennifer L. Berghom. “Texas State University President Talks About Importance of College to Memorial High Students.” TheMonitor. com. 13 Feb. 2008.

8
Linda Saslow. “Suffolk County College is Raising Tuition.”
New York Times,
26 April 2009, Section LI: 2.

9
Beata Mostafavi. “MCC Eyes 11.7% Hike in Tuition.”
Flint Journal,
17 June 2010: A3.

10
David Slade and Diane Knich. “Why Is College Tuition So High? In South Carolina, Costs Have Nearly Tripled in a Decade.”
The Post and Courier
[Charleston, SC], 8 Aug. 2010: A1.

11
Scott Carlson. “The $50K Club: 58 Private Colleges Pass a Pricing Milestone.”
Chronicle of Higher Education,
1 Nov. 2009.

12
Abby Goodnough. “New Meaning for Night Class at 2-Year Colleges.”
NYTimes.com
. 28 Oct. 2009.

13
Sandra Block. “In a Recession, Is College Worth It? Fear of Debt Changes Plans.”
USAToday.com
. 31 Aug. 2009.

14
“College Education Is About More Than Money.” Letters to the Editor.
USA Today,
3 Sept. 2009, final ed.: 10A.

15
Tamara Draut. “Debt-for-Diploma System: Student-loan Debt Saddles College Grads Long After They Earn Degrees.”
New England Journal of Higher Education,
Winter 2009: 31–32.

16
Mark C. Taylor. “Academic Bankruptcy.”
NYTimes.com
. 14 Aug. 2010.

17
Brunner v. N.Y. St. Higher Educ. Servs. Corp., 831 F.2d 395 (2d Cir. 1987).

18
Charles Booker. “The Undue Hardship of Education.”
Journal of Law & Education
39.2, April 2010: 273–79.

19
Jon Gertner. “Forgive Us Our Student Debts.”
New York Times Magazine,
11 June 2006.

20
Jeffrey Selingo and Eric Hoover. “U.S. Public's Confidence in Colleges Remains High.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
50.35 (2004): A1+.

21
“College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2008 High School Graduates.”
News: Bureau of Labor Statistics,
28 April 2009.

22
“U.S. Census Bureau: College Enrollment Up 17 Percent Since 2000.”
Education Business Weekly,
1 Oct. 2008: 19.

23
“Are Too Many Students Going to College?”
Chronicle Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education,
8 Nov. 2009.

24
Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr.
The Meritocracy Myth.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

25
Timothy F. Geithner. Remarks at the White House Task Force on Middle-Class Families Meeting on College Access and Affordability. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 9 Sept. 2009.

26
“Excerpts of the President's Remarks in Warren, Michigan, Today and a Fact Sheet on the American Graduation Initiative.” White House—Office of the Press Secretary,
www.whitehouse.gov
. 14 July 2009.

27
Community colleges have long contended that such statistics as graduation rate, which they are required by the federal Student Right-to-Know Act to report to the National Center for Education Statistics in order for their students to receive federal financial aid, are flawed. The schools claim that the numbers ignore the transfer mission of community colleges: students who transfer before graduation are counted as dropouts, and the transferring school is penalized in the rankings. However, Thomas Bailey, Peter M. Crosta, and Davis Jenkins, in their study of graduation rates at Florida's community colleges, conclude that although the SRK rates do “yield a biased and potentially misleading picture of individual community college student outcomes,” when adjustments were made for varying student and institutional characteristics, “college rankings were still fairly stable.” Correcting for transfers using a database that tracks students across multiple institutions, the researchers found that the “SRK graduation rates do not present a significantly more negative picture of community college performance than rates that could follow individual students across transfers.” See “What Can Student Rightto-Know Graduation Rates Tell Us About Community College Performance?”
CCRC Working Paper No. 6.
Community College Resource Center. Teacher's College, Columbia University, Aug. 2006.

28
James Vaznis. “Hub Grads Come Up Short in College: Most from Class of 2000 Have Failed to Earn Degrees.”
Boston Globe,
17 Nov. 2008. Also, “Getting In Isn't Enough.” Editorial.
Boston Globe,
17 Nov. 2008.

1
Phil Primack. “Doesn't Anybody Get a C Anymore?”
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,
5 Oct. 2008
.

2
Jillian K. Kushner. “College Admits Record-Low 7 Percent.”
Harvard Crimson,
31 March 2009.

3
Brenda S. Sonner. “A Is for Adjunct: Examining Grade Inflation in Higher Education.”
Journal of Education for Business
76.1 (2000): 5–8.

4
Ronald C. McArthur. “A Comparison of Grading Patterns Between Full- and Part-Time Humanities Faculty: A Preliminary Study.”
Community College Review
27.3 (1999): 65–76. I can't help but get a little fed up at the constant demonizing of adjuncts. On the one hand, we're letting the students skate through the system with vastly inflated grades. On the other, “community colleges with the largest proportion of part-time instructors have the worst student-graduation rates.” See the Jacoby study cited in “Study Sees Link Between Part-Time Instructors and Graduation Rates.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
53. 10 (2006): A10. Jacoby thinks the problem is mainly due to adjuncts' lack of office hours. “They [adjuncts] don't have offices, and some schools don't even list part-time faculty in their directory. . . . People don't even know how to find them.” Either we adjuncts are goosing them through the system or we're not; one can't have it both ways.

5
These things are all over the Internet, if that's your idea of Websurfing entertainment. I got this one at
http://webpages.yosemite.cc.ca.us/keriotisd/Handouts/101_Rubric.pdf
.

6
Ian Marshall. “'I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together': Bakhtin and the Beatles.” In
Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four.
Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, 9–35. This work is the exact contemporary equivalent of
The Beatles Book
to which I referred earlier: I am a sucker for pointy-headed academics rocking out—if talking about the Beatles can still be considered rocking out.

7
Barbara H. Wooten. “Gender Differences in Occupational Employment.”
Bureau of Labor Statistics—Monthly Labor Review,
April 1997. Also “Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey. Table 11: Household Data—Annual Averages: Employed Persons by Detailed Industry, Sex, Race, and Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity.”
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Jan. 2010.

1
“PhD Program in English: Ira Shor.” Graduate Center, CUNY Web Page. City University of New York.

2
Ira Shor. “Why Teach About Social Class?”
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
33.2 (2005): 161–71.

1
Betsy Barefoot. “Bridging the Chasm: First-Year Students and the Library.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
20 Jan. 2006 supp.: B16.

1
Bruce E. R. Thompson. “Emissaries from the World Beyond: The Authenticity of Adjuncts.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
47.46 (2001): B16.

2
Michael Holden. “Baseless Assumptions About Students' Basic Knowledge—What Students Know (a Survey): What Can the Informationally Challenged Write Beyond Personal Narratives?”
Contemporary Education
68 (1996): 64–66.

1
“I Spout Off . . .” Itinerant Oak—A Family Journey
.
Weblog.
http://itinerant-oak.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-spout-off.html
. 9 June 2008.

2
Steven D. Krause. “Yet Another Topic to Discuss: ‘In the Basement of the Ivory Tower.' ”
emutalk.org
. Weblog. 24 May 2008.

3
Krause, Reply. 24 May 2008.

4
Doug Robinson. “Like Students, Like Professor.” Comspot: The First-Year Writing Program at the University of Mississippi. Weblog.
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/English/blog/2008/05/like-students-like-professor.html
. 16 May 2008. This blog seems to have been taken down.