Student / Faculty Collaboration

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

Karl Marx. Critique of the Gotha Program. 1875

"The A.U.T.'s policy on staff-student relations should stand firmly on the principle of a community of scholars."

Harold Perkin. Key Profession: The History of the Association of University Teachers. 1969

"Real work is better than homework."

Eric Rabkin. See Eric S. Rabkin and Macklin Smith. Teaching Writing That Works: A Group Approach to Practical English. 1990

Networked computing in the academic context creates a community in which the real work of teaching often is research, and faculty become "a hand in the band."