HIGH POINT, N.C., July 9, 2009 – Dr. Leah Schweitzer, assistant professor of English at High Point University, recently published an article that appeared in the “Composition Forum.”
The article, “Accommodating the Student Consumer,” addresses questions about what to do as education becomes more consumer-driven, as well as concerns about good pedagogy and pressures from administration to recruit and retain students.
“The article, using Directed Self-Placement as a sort of case study, considers the role student-centered assessments and pedagogies play in perpetuating this consumer role and theorizes that we are framing them in a way that makes us complicit,” Schweitzer says.
Schweitzer also wrote a book review of “Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics and the Profession.” The review appeared in the June issue of “Workplace.”
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people. HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 50 countries and more than 40 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report No. 5 among comprehensive universities in the South and No. 1 in its category among up-and-coming schools. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 6 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” The university offers 66 undergraduate majors, 40 undergraduate minors and seven graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at www.highpoint.edu.
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