To Improve the Academy – Resources for Faculty, Instructional and Organizational Development V26: JB - Anker

To Improve the Academy

Volume 26

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:

• Evaluating teaching

• Teaching awards in research universities

• Individual inquiry, collaborative investigation, and collective scholarship

• The scholarship of teaching and learning and focused assessments

• Supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning at liberal arts colleges

• Grounded theory research in faculty development

• Assessment of a faculty learning community program

• Stereotype threat

• Inclusive teaching resources for science, technology, engineering, and math

• Marketing plans for faculty development

• Faculty development at small and liberal arts colleges

• The importance of the faculty status for faculty developers

• Co-teaching as a faculty development model

• Promoting learning-focused teaching

• Team mentoring

• A research-based rubric for developing statements of teaching philosophy

• Meeting the challenges of integrative learning

• The teaching resource portfolio

• Reflecting and writing about our teaching

• Using technology for teaching in higher education