Assessment is a Team Sport: A Collaborative Faculty Process
If you look up “assessment” in the dictionary, you will not find reference to team sports. What you will find are definitions that include concepts such as eval...
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The Ins and Outs of Higher Education’s Culture of Assessment
Mention a “culture of assessment” to your colleagues in higher education and their responses to you may likely be an eye roll, sigh, or perhaps even a groan. Th...
Help for Families of Military Veterans
Stephanie Mines, Ph.D., will be facilitating a family-friendly event geared for families of veterans, featuring readings from her book and handouts for family a...
Using Creative Thinking to Innovate Faculty Development
What is the relationship between innovation and faculty development? In the past we have discussed it in the abstract, but this time we’d like to demonstrate ho...
An Inside Look at a Faculty Innovator Progress, Part I
Traditionally, when groups go to a non-work area for a day of training, the event is called a retreat. Since the word retreat carries negative connotations—espe...
From the Publisher
Changes, New Offerings and a Networking Opportunity for 2016 By Doug Dollar With the arrival of volume 30 of the Journal of Faculty Development this month, I wi...
A Third Community Type for High Ed Faculty
A few years ago a group of faculty came to us, and because we had taught creative writing for years, they asked us to facilitate a fiction-writing group. No, fi...
Is Faculty-Student Rapport Dead or Just Declining?
For years Charlie and Hal have shared an office. The first one there in the morning at around 7:30 opens the door and puts on a pot of our special-blend coffee....
Bundles
New Forums Press introduces a series of “Bundles,” sets of books related to specific topics and bundled together to help introduce scholars to a spe...
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