The first decade of the 21st century brought major challenges to higher education. This volume provides the field with a snapshot of faculty development structures, priorities and practices in a period of change, and uses the collective wisdom of those engaged with teaching, learning, and faculty development centers and programs to identify important new directions for practice.
The first decade of the 21st century brought major challenges to higher education. This volume provides the field with a snapshot of faculty development structures, priorities and practices in a period of change, and uses the collective wisdom of those engaged with teaching, learning, and faculty development centers and programs to identify important new directions for practice.
Andrea L. Beach is a Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Co-Director of the Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education (CRICPE) at Western Michigan University. She founded and was Director of the Office of Faculty Development at WMU from 2008-2015. She received her Master's degree in Adult and Continuing Education and her PhD in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) from Michigan State University in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Her research centers on organizational change in higher education, support of innovation in teaching and learning, faculty learning communities, and faculty development as a change lever. She has been PI and co-PI on several NSF-funded grants focused on instructional change strategies that have produced articles and book chapters on instructional change strategies as well as instruments to self-report instruction and academic department climate for instructional improvement. She was co-author on Creating the Future of Faculty Development (with M.D. Sorcinelli, A.E. Austin, and P.L. Eddy, 2006). She is most recently director of a $3.2 million US DoE FIPSE First in the World project to undertake, document, and measure outcomes of institutional transformation aimed at improving the persistence and academic success of students from low-income backgrounds. Dr. Mary Deane Sorcinelli is the Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development at UMass Amherst. She was awarded, along with two colleagues, an NSF Institutional Transformation Grant through the American Association of Universities (AAU) in Washington, D.C.Mary Deane has directed a number of externally grant-funded projects aimed at promoting educational innovation from the Andrew W. Mellon, Microsoft, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Pew Charitable Trusts. She has served on advisory boards and as an external evaluator of NSF ADVANCE CC
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Introduction 1. Who Are We? 2. What Guides Our Work? 3. Where and with Whom do We Work? 4. Services We Focus On 5. Our Approaches to Faculty Development 6. Where are We Going? 7. How Does Assessment Fit in Our Work? 8 )What Have We Learned? Appendix A. Survey Instrument Appendix B. Services Tables by Institution Type Appendix C. Top Issues Faculty Development Should Address in the Next Five Years References About the Authors Index
Introduction 1. Who Are We? 2. What Guides Our Work? 3. Where and with Whom do We Work? 4. Services We Focus On 5. Our Approaches to Faculty Development 6. Where are We Going? 7. How Does Assessment Fit in Our Work? 8 )What Have We Learned? Appendix A. Survey Instrument Appendix B. Services Tables by Institution Type Appendix C. Top Issues Faculty Development Should Address in the Next Five Years References About the Authors Index
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