A Book Called "How College Works" by Two Authors Who Get It

My friends’ Chambliss and Takacs’ book How College Works (Harvard University Press 2014) has just come out (previous coverage in ). I worked on a small piece with Chambliss at the beginning of their Mellon funded research in assessment project many years ago and have followed along as the book took shape. It’s well written, well reasoned, and their’s is a perspective that does not delight the higher ed assessment industrial complex. That is, you will find it an interesting read if you work in the kind of institution I work in.

See also

• Q and A with Chambliss in the “Hechinger Report” (2012)
• “Succeeding in College: the Problem of Motivation (3)” (2012) a blog post by Doug Bennett, President Emeritus of Earlham College
• “Majoring in a Professor” (Inside Higher Ed, August 2013 by Scott Jaschik)

Author: Dan Ryan

I'm currently an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com. I've been a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. I'm driven by the desire to figure out how to teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily. View all posts by Dan Ryan