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UMUC'S
AUTHORS
Kathleen Waters
Sander
Elisa L. Carbone
 Kathleen
Waters Sander
Many UMUC alumni, staff, and faculty are
published authors in a wide variety of fields. Here are a few who have
had works published recently.
Kathleen Waters Sander, faculty member in humanities, is the author of
a recently published book, The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange
Movement, 1832-1900. The book, which is Sander's first, is part of
the "Women in American History" series from the University of Illinois
Press and focuses on a time when American women had few respectable employment
options.
Woman's exchanges-many of which are still in business more than a century
later-formed a vast national network that created economic alternatives
for financially vulnerable women. The exchanges were fashionable and popular
shops where women who had fallen on hard times could sustain themselves
by selling their handiwork on consignment without having to seek public
employment. The exchanges have become an important forum for entrepreneurial
growth and an example of how women used the voluntary sector-which had
so successfully served as a conduit for their political and social reforms-to
advance opportunities for economic independence. A documentary film inspired
by the book is being made.
Sander has taught American history (humanities) survey courses at UMUC
for the last four years. She was director of the Office of Institutional
Advancement from 1989-91, at which time she helped start the Alumni Association
and Achiever. She received her Ph.D. in American studies from University
of Maryland, College Park in 1994. Her dissertation, on which her book
is based, won both the John Grenzebach Dissertation Award for Research
in Philanthropy and the Carl Bode Award in the Humanities. Sander has
developed one course for online delivery and is in the process of developing
a second online humanities course.
Elisa L. Carbone
Elisa L. Carbone, faculty member in speech, recently wrote Teaching
Large Classes: Tools and Strategies. The book is number 19 in SAGE
Publications' "Survival Skills for Scholars" series. The purpose of the
book is explained clearly in the foreword, which was written by University
of Maryland, College Park's (UMCP) Jim Greenberg:
"At a time when much has been discerned-and discussed-about the importance
of active learning, student-centered teaching, and shared responsibility
for the success of student-learning outcomes, large classes (in our
definition, over 100 students) represent an anomaly. How can you personalize
your teaching and make it more interactive when you have so many students
to deal with? This question, asked many times-and repeatedly-by a growing
number of college professors, poses the dilemma that this book attempts
to ameliorate."
Each chapter of the book offers advice on a relevant topic. Examples
include personalizing the large class; getting your students to listen;
using stories, examples, demonstrations, visual aids, and technology;
providing assessment and feedback in large classes; managing student behavior;
and working effectively with teaching assistants. Fellow UMUC faculty
and staff members Mary Allen (English), Sabrina Marschall (faculty development
programs), and Salah Negm (accounting) are quoted in the book.
From 1995-98, Carbone was the coordinator of the Large Classes Project
for the Center for Teaching Excellence at UMCP. As part of that project,
she published Large Classes Newsletter for UMCP faculty and teaching
assistants. In addition to teaching speech classes at UMUC, Carbone is
a member of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in
Higher Education (POD) and serves on the Diversity Commission for that
organization. She is also the author of five published and upcoming novels
for young people, the most recent of which are Starting School with
an Enemy and Stealing Freedom, both from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. She
also conducts workshops nationwide on such instructional issues as active
learning, lecturing skills, and teaching large classes.
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