The Genesis of Scaling the Scholarship Mountain
In the past few years we have found ourselves writing about a book per semester. This semester, however, we’ve done at least two. We say at least because we’ve ...
Author: Rusty Carpenter
What’s on a Higher Ed Faculty Developer’s Bookshelf?
We came up in an earlier age when the old expression was “Show me your library, and I’ll show you your soul.” Of course, today most houses aren’t even construct...
The 4 Benefits of Higher Education Scholarly Collaboration
An issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (November 14, 2014) carries an essay that provides a rationale for the traditional role of the solitary scholar. I...
The Faculty Developer’s Most Important Question
To write Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al sent out an 18-question survey to a host of faculty developers—e.g., what kind of i...
The Importance of Physical Space for Faculty Performance
While space was the final frontier for countless episodes of Star Trek, creating the optimal teaching and learning spaces may be the final academic frontier for...
An Innovative Plan for Assessing Faculty Development
Sunday night we had supper with assessment guru Peggy Maki, author of the forthcoming Real-Time Assessment, and while she was picking apart her eggplant parmigi...
Resources On Unifying Faculty Development Programming
A few posts ago we discussed the importance of a center for teaching & learning (CTL) developing unified programming—i.e., a central concern around which it...
14 Guidelines for Successful Higher Ed Faculty Workshops
One question that comes up quite often with our oversight of all things under our auspices is: how involved should we as the Executive Committee be over present...
An Inside Look at The Faculty Innovator Progress, Part II
Week before last we discussed what made the morning of our January progress such a success. After an excellent lunch, we moved onto a two-hour afternoon session...
How to Select Faculty Innovators
For the past few posts, we’ve been discussing Faculty Innovators, those selected faculty members who bring development to the campus. An interesting question in...