To Improve the Academy

Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Higher Education
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Author: Laura Cruz ISBN: 9781118282854
Publisher: Wiley Publication: August 31, 2012
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Language: English
Author: Laura Cruz
ISBN: 9781118282854
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: August 31, 2012
Imprint: Jossey-Bass
Language: English

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Contents include:

  • Professional development for geographically dispersed faculty
  • Implementing a learning consortium for communication and change
  • Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment
  • What educational developers need to know about faculty-artists
  • Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty
  • Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers
  • Mentoring in higher education
  • Tough-love consulting in order to effect change
  • Research on the impact of educational development
  • Examining effective faculty practice
  • Insights on millennial students
  • Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers
  • Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation terminology
  • Questions about student ratings
  • Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online instruction
  • Supporting international faculty
  • Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and learning
  • Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial inclusion
  • The truth about students' capacity for multitasking
  • Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter backchannel
  • Designing active learning with flexible technology
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An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Contents include:

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