To Improve the Academy Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

by Kaplan, Matthew; Lieberman, Devorah

• ISBN13: 9781882982318
• ISBN10: 1882982312
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-15
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 18 of To Improve the Academy is a collection of articles that reflect upon the changing priorities within faculty development. While exploring traditional faculty and instructional development topics, the authors emphasize a movement away from individual service and toward a focus on organizational issues and long-term collaborations. In total, this book serves to reexamine the academy's priorities, values, and vision for the future.The book is divided into three sections: Section I, Organizational Change in the Academy and in POD: examines the role of multiculturalism in faculty development Section II, Collaboration and Partnerships: describes how programs can be strengthened by involving students and faculty and encouraging collaborative efforts between educational developers and faculty Section III, Examining Assumptions About Teaching and Faculty Development: focuses on the need to integrate teaching, research, and service by examining faculty interactions with studentsThe articles featured in To Improve the Academy, Volume 18 are designed to challenge readers to think carefully about how and why they work as they do in order to grapple with emerging changes in higher education. The book offers an essential resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Author Biography

MATHEW KAPLAN is an Instructional consultant, Center for research on Learning and teaching, University of Michigan.

DEVORAH LIEBMAN is Director of teaching and learning, Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Organizational Change in the Academy and in POD

Diversity and its discontents

The challenge and test of our values

POD as a multicultural organization

The scholarship of teaching and learning

QILT: An approach to faculty development and institutional self-improvement

Finding key faculty to influence change

Collaboration and Partnerships

Student collaboration in faculty development

Transforming introductory psychology

TEACHnology: Linking teaching and technology in faculty development

Writing-across-the-curriculum as a site for new collaborations

Faculty teaching partners and associates

Creating a culture of formative assessment

Examining Assumptions About Teaching and Faculty Development

Fragmentation vs. integration of faculty work

Getting lecturers to take discussion seriously

Faculty development in a program for first-year students

The influence of disciplinary differences on consultations with faculty

Faculty development centers in research universities

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