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Engaging students with material associated with public budgeting processes can be a challenge. Our experience in an interdisciplinary seminar on education politics and policy suggests that a budget simulation exercise is an effective tool to achieve multiple objectives, including increased student engagement and strengthening student-learning outcomes, while offering a vehicle with which to explore significant policy issues. The effort described here draws on literature from both political science and education. It offers an approach that is adaptable and that can be used to encourage significant engagement from students with variable levels of prior experience and preparation. (Contains 3 tables and 2 notes.)

Hiring tenure-track faculty is an activity common to all colleges and universities. Most institutions engage in hiring activities each year. Despite the number of searches conducted annually, most available information about faculty hiring consists of guidelines for conducting searches and statistics about searches within disciplines. The purpose of this essay is to briefly examine an alternative approach to hiring tenure-track faculty that has been used at California State University Channel Islands.

Hiring tenure-track faculty is an activity common to all colleges and universities. Most institutions engage in hiring activities each year Despite the number of searches conducted annually, most available information about faculty hiring consists of guidelines for conducting searches and statistics about searches within disciplines. The purpose of this essay is to briefly examine an alternative approach to hiring tenure-track faculty that has been used at California State University Channel Islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]