An annual publication of the Professional and OrganizationalDevelopment Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve theAcademy offers a resource for improvement in higher education tofaculty and instructional development staff, department chairs,faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers,and educational consultants.
Contents include:
* Graduate student internships as a pathway to the profession ofeducational development
* Preparing faculty to develop hybrid courses
* Writing groups for work-life balance
* A faculty learning community approach to tenure andpromotion
* Helping faculty integrate citizenship into the curriculum
* Students' perspectives on enhancing communication withfaculty
* Effecting change in limited-control classroom environments
* A laboratory research group model for the scholarship ofteaching and learning
* Institutional encouragement of the scholarship of teaching andlearning
* Multiple definitions of critical thinking
* Faculty development and governance collaborating on curriculumrevision
* Academic dishonesty among international students
* Serving veterans with disabilities
* Working with psychologically impaired faculty
* Leadership development for faculty of color
* Diffusing the impact of tokenism on faculty of color
* Difficult Dialogues for cross-cultural faculty development
* Faculty development beyond instructional development
* Fundraising by teaching centers
* Evaluation of teaching and learning centers
* Faculty development career disruptions
* Emergent shifts in the faculty development portfolio
Judith E. Miller
Bildungswesen Education Faculty Development Fakultätsentwicklung Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)