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

by Lieberman, Devorah; Wehlburg, Catherine M.

• ISBN13: 9781882982431
• ISBN10: 1882982436
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-15
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, volume 19 of To Improve the Academy is a collection of articles that addresses current research and trends for the future of faculty development. Each article is balanced between application, practice, and theory to offer new insight into areas in which the field of faculty development is greatly invested.To Improve the Academy, Volume 19, offers a resource to faculty members as faculty developers have increased in number and the practice of faculty development has gained greater institutionalization in higher education. The book is divided into three sections: Section I, Focus on Trends in Faculty Development: identifies critical trends in faculty development, including participation in the national conversation on the scholarship of teaching and faculty development; the faculty developer's role in supporting and working with department chairs; a historical perspective on service-learning; diversity theory; and the learning community concept Section II, Focus on Faculty Development and Student Learning: challenges readers to think critically about improving student learning and creating successful partnerships between faculty and graduate as well as undergraduate students Section III, Focus on Faculty Development and Professional Support: uses examples to illustrate how faculty developers and faculty members can offer mutual support to effect lasting impact on their campusesAsserting that it is the responsibility of educational developers to improve the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, the authors seeks to inspire readers to work with their peers to produce quality scholarship-and positive change-in the field of faculty development.

Author Biography

DEVORAH LIEBERMAN is Vice Provost and Assistant to the President and Director of Teaching and learning, center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University.

CATHERINE M. WEHLBURG is Associate Vice president for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor in Psychology, Stephens College.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Developers

Focus on Trends in Faculty Development

Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Communities of Practice

Transitions and Transformations: The Making of Department Chairs

Education for Responsible Citizenship: A Challenge for Faculty Developers

A Prophet in Your Own Land? Using Faculty and Student Focus Groups to Address Issues of race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Classroom

Faculty Learning Commenities: Change Agents for Transforming Institutions into Learning Organizations

Focus on Faculty Development and Student Learning

Doing faculty Development as if We value Learning Most: Transformative Guidelines from Research to Practice

Higher-Level Learning: The First Step Toward More Significant Learning

Clarity in Teaching in Higher Education: Dimensions and Classroom Strategies

Preparing Today's Faculty for Tomorrow's Students: One College's Faculty Development Solution

After Twelve Years of Teaching the College-Teaching Course

Faculty development that Transforms the Undergraduate Experience at a Research University

The Case for Spphisticated Course Syllabi

The Role of a Teaching Center in Curricular Reform

Technology and the Culture of teaching and Learning

Focus on Faculty Development and Professional Support

Developing New faculty: An Evolving Program

Publish, Don't Perish: A Program to help Scholars Floruish

Designing Teaching Portfolios Based on a Formal Model of the Scholarship of teaching

Strengthening Collegiality to Enhance Teaching, Research, and Scholarly Practice: An Untapped Resource for Faculty Development

Faculty Quality of Life

Getting Administrative Support for your Project

Bibliography

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