I've been meaning to plug a really great e-mail listserv on Pedablogue for quite some time: Tomorrow's Professor, led by Richard M. Reis (author of a book by the same title). I subscribe to this newsletter, which disseminates wonderfully thoughful essays about college teaching (usually excerpts from current books by diverse authors) about 100 times a year.

The archives of Tomorrow's Professor are an enormous buffet. One of my favorite finds from past issues is "Why Professors Have Tenure and Business People Don't" by Richard B. McKenzie. It explains why tenure exists economically (as a "benefit" in exchange for lower salary) and politically (to protect professors from internal forces -- like the odd whims of committee votes). But interesting pedagogical theory entries make up the bulk of the listserv. For example, Robert K. Noyd's "Balancing Overteaching and Underteaching" interestingly applies Aristotelean methods to achieving balance in one's teaching decisions.

You can't read all that the listserv offers in one sitting, but you can start keeping current with it now. The next issue promises to be on "The Perils of Powerpoint" so subscribe today!

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