Always at Odds?

Mary C. Wright is Instructional Consultant at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.

• TablesAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Benefits of Instructional Congruence3. "It's Like Bad Taste": How Interpretive Person-Organization Fit4. Social Networks as Building Blocks for Congruence: Faculty That Chalk Together Talk Together5. How Chairs Build Instructional Communities: Big Pictures Versus Big Impacts6. Sharing the Value of Teaching: Ways to Build a Culture of CongruenceAppendix A: Faculty Semi-Structured Interview InstrumentAppendix B: Chair Semi-Structured Interview InstrumentNotesReferencesIndex

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