Roads taken : the professorial life, scholarship in place, and the public good / edited by Roger Epp and Bill Spellman ; cover photograph by Milton Schlosser ; cover design Teresa Wheeler.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

A place where ideas matter / Joel Sipress, History, University of Wisconsin/Superior -- Detours, intersections, and a few bumps in the road / Therese Seibert, Sociology, Keene State College -- The outsiders : undergraduate research in a liberal arts institution / Dylan Fischer, Ecology, The Evergreen State College -- How everything influences everything else : the strange and wonderful journey to an integrated academic life / Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Education, Eastern Connecticut State University -- Notes from an academic odd couple / Lee Rozelle and Jill Wicknick, English, Biology, Montevallo University -- "'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be" / Gary Towsley, Mathematics, State University of New York/Geneseo -- A kid for life / Quan Tran, Mathematics, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma -- Dr. Monograph : or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the liberal arts / Janet Schrunk Ericksen, English, University of Minnesota/Morris -- Music, the liberal arts, and rural identity : the not-so-straight road / Milton Schlosser, Music, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus -- What have I done?! : a Renaissance art historian finds her way in the rural Midwest / Julia Delancey, Art, Truman State University -- How one becomes what one is / Jonathan R. Cohen, Philosophy, University of Maine/Farmington -- Neither here nor there : testing the boundaries of place and pedagogy / Ellen Holmes Pearson, History, University of North Carolina/Asheville -- Finding the road back to the "last good job in America" / Kathleen Fine-Dare, Anthropology and Gender/Women's Studies, Fort Lewis College -- The liberal arts leave the ivory tower and enter the trenches / Robin Bates, English, St. Mary's College of Maryland.