Michelle D. Deardorff

Michelle D. Deardorff
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Chatt · Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Nonprofit Management

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Publications (23)
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Assessing over Time: The Political Science Program Review - Volume 49 Issue 1 - Michelle D. Deardorff
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Reconsidering the Scholarly Conference for the Contemporary Academic - Volume 48 Issue 2 - Michelle D. Deardorff
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Originating from the institution of slavery, black political thought has been framed by the historical and social experiences of the African American freedom struggle in the USA. The desire for liberty from enslavement provided initial parameters for the earliest political thinkers. In the years after the Constitution was amended and slavery abolis...
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This essay discusses concrete approaches for faculty to use when teaching a student body whose demographics and cultural backgrounds are significantly different from that of the professor. As a white political scientist from the north teaching at a historically black university in the south, this work is particularly concerned with the dynamics of...
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In the United States, the lower federal courts frequently determine the meaning of statutes through their decisions. Political science research has mostly focused on how lower courts make their interpretations in light of Supreme Court precedents. This article examines how the federal courts have interpreted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act's (PDA)...
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This paper discusses concrete approaches for faculty to use when teaching a student body whose demographics are significantly different from the identity of the professor. As a white northern political scientist teaching at a historically black southern university, this work particularly emphasizes the dynamics of race and gender. However, the less...
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The December 2006 APSA report, "Trends in the Political Science Profession" (Sedowski and Brintnall 2006; Brintnall 2005), noted that the number of political science jobs posted on eJobs reached an all-time high for the academic year. Thirty-six percent of those jobs were in B.A.-granting institutions, institutions most likely to include a focus on...
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In 2003, the Supreme Court handed down two landmark decisions regarding the use of affirmative action in higher education. In one case, Grutter v. Bollinger, the Court said it was constitutional to consider race in admissions decisions in order to achieve the educational benefits of a diverse student body. In stark contrast, the Court struck down i...
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Our collective experience as academics has led us to fear that departmental assessment plans will just sit on some anonymous shelf; our hard work will disappear into the black hole of administrative demands; and the lack of university response will become one more chip on our faculty's shoulders as yet another example of wasted effort. The question...
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Assessment requirements often raise great concerns among departments and faculty: fear of loss of autonomy, distraction from primary departmental goals, and the creation of alien and artificial external standards. This article demonstrates how one political science department directly responded to their own unique circumstances in assessing their c...
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At the first APSA Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) in 2004, 11 professors and graduate students gathered to discuss and evaluate the role of assessment in political science. Excited by the impact of assessment in their classrooms and departments, the working group concluded their session with a declaration of the positive role assessment coul...
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Over the last 10 years in the discipline of political science, there has been a flourishing discussion about the role of departmental assessment. Clearly, one fear has been that these external mandates are infringements on academic freedom at worst, and make extra work for faculty at best. In an early article published in PS: Political Science and...
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The assessment literature frequently ignores the quandary of the department resistant to assessment in its discussion of implementing departmental plans and instead focuses on idealized implementation processes. The approach articulated in this article builds on the assessment literature, generating the hypothesis that a grassroots approach to asse...
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When I arrived in Washington, D.C. to attend the first APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning, I did not know what to expect. Although I have been a regular participant in the APSA Annual Meeting and attended many workshops on teaching and curricular development, this didn't seem to be the same. All of my contacts with the program committee and A...
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The goal of this paper is to show how one political science department at a small midwestern university (Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois) used good assessment practices identified by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) and others to effect improvement. The paper argues that these principles can be followed and produce numero...
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The irony was so striking that it could not be lost on anyone. Sitting before us was a soon-to-be-minted Ph.D. candidate whom we all liked tremendously, and who had an incredibly strong academic record, both in research and teaching. Yet, as our panel read his letter of application and CV, which were displayed on an overhead projector, and as we di...
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Preface 1. Introduction: "The Judicial Usurpation of Politics" 2. What is "the Constitution" (And Other Fundamental Questions) 3. The Fourteenth Amendment: What Norms Did "We the People" Establish? 4. The Fourteenth Amendment and Race: Segregation and Affirmative Action 5. Beyond Race: Sex and Sexual Orientation 6. Further Beyond: Abortion and Phys...
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This paper addresses the concept that our pedagogical approach can reinforce or undermine the content that we teach. Focusing on creating an engaged citizenry through a pedagogy centered on student participation and a content that emphasizes the idea that democracy is an unfinished and ongoing project, allows students to experience the power, possi...
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, 1993. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [212]-231). Microfiche.

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