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