Affordable Food for Thought

It is a common practice for faculty membersto use high-cost textbooks for the purpose ofintroducing new information to college students. Due to cost, there is growing financial pressures on students. Likewise, the necessary disposal of quickly outdated textbooks suggests that the model is ultimately unsustainable. This recipe provides affordablealternatives to high-cost textbooks and offerslibrarians the tools to assist faculty memberswith redesigning courses using open educational resources (OERs)

Teaching Business Looking at the Support Needs of Instructors

In 2018, Ithaka S+R gathered representatives from 14 libraries to understand how undergraduate business instruction can be better supported. This is the first in a series of projects that will examine teaching practices (as opposed to research practices), in an effort to identify the range of support scholars need across their academic responsibilities. Investigating the teaching practices and concerns of business instructors has proven an illuminating first foray in this series. While, in some respects, students are students regardless of discipline, as business education developed over the past century, it also came to be distinguished by several unique practices and emphases that gave rise to unique needs, and hence, unique supports. (https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/teaching-business/

Supporting the Changing Practices of Undergraduate Business Teaching at North Carolina Central University

In the Fall of 2018, North Carolina Central University (NCCU) joined with thirteen other institutions to participate in an Ithaka S+R study to understand Business instructors’ undergraduate teaching processes towards developing resources and services to support them in their work. Ithaka S+R in a not-for-profit organization that “helps academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, technological, and demographic change” (Ithaka S+R, 2015). Ithaka S+R “works with leaders in higher education, academic libraries, foundations, and publishers to research, evaluate, and provide strategic guidance in a range of areas” such as: student success, access to higher education, diversity, and research and teaching practices, and more (Ithaka S+R, 2018).This report will outline the pedagogical practices of School of Business instructors at North Carolina Central University. The goal of this study is to understand Business instructors undergraduate teaching process towards developing resources and services at North Carolina Central University and how the librarians at the James E. Shepard Memorial Library can support their work