My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
After fifteen years as a university professor, the author of this book (writing under the pseudonym of Rebekah Nathan) realized she no longer understood undergraduates. Fewer and fewer did assigned readings, participated in class discussions, or stopped by her office hours. Why do students nowadays behave as though their education is of no importance to them? Nathan, an anthropologist, attempted to answer this question in a unique way: she went undercover and enrolled as a freshman student in her own university, moving into the dorms and taking a full course load.
Besides raising an interesting controversy around the ethics involved in the author's undercover approach, My Freshman Year offers a compelling account of college life, touching on topics such as friendship, dorm life, engagement in university classrooms, and experiences of ethnic minorities.
This book may be of interest for those who want to know better about the new challenges that students face, to which-Nathan argues-academic institutions have not adapted.
This book is available for loan in the CETL library. | 
