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Rabow (sociology, UCLA) presents a collection of essays by 14 American academics exploring the problems and dilemmas of excellent teaching in the excellent research university setting, emphasizing student participation as a form of scholarship that can only occur in a classroom. Coverage includes the contradictions in the professorial role and the college classroom in the research university; teaching excellence in a multicultural university; and neglected aspects of the teaching enterprise. The latter include character formation as an aspect of college and university training, the use of new technology to empower disadvantaged students, balancing effective teaching and effective research, objectivity versus activism in teaching social justice, and balancing ideals with the institutional constraint. For professors, graduate and undergraduate students, educators, state legislators, and others concerned with higher education in the U.S. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)