In recent years, new expectations of higher education from parents, employers, trustees, and government leaders have contributed to broad institutional changes. Recognizing that the quality of a university or college...
This book describes how these faculty development and institutional needs and priorities are being addressed through linkages, collaborations, and networks across institutional units; and highlights the increasing role of faculty ...
To Improve the Academy, Volume 23, describes the ways in which faculty development is changing and offers insight on how to manage these changes.
Statement of Purpose The work lives of faculty and administrative leaders in higher education institutions, while typically rewarding, are often challenging and stressful.
With the ranks of new incoming faculty likely to swell in coming years, hiring new tenure-track instructors and seeing them through to tenure is a department chair’s responsibility that carries...
Improving Undergraduate Education Through Faculty Development
Since the first edition of A Guide to Faculty Development was published in 2002, the dynamic field of educational and faculty development has undergone many changes.
... faculty development as a term was primarily focused on efforts aimed at “improving and advancing scholarly competence” (Sorcinelli et al., 2006, p. 4). The goal was to help faculty members maintain relevance in their respective fields ...
Joseph Janes and Diane Hauer,Now What? Readings on Surviving (and Even Enjoying) Your First Experience at College Teaching (Acton, Mass.: Copley Publish- ing Group, 1988), 14–15; Raths, 2; Nilson, 76; and Charles C. Bonwell and James A.
... developed countries, mainly in the United States. Specifically, there mainly existed three theoretical models of faculty development in the United States. William H. Bergquist and Steven R. Phillips initially proposed the first model of ...