Author: Rusty Carpenter

In Learning To Think Things Through (2005), Gerry Nosich claims that every course needs a focus, what he calls “the central question . . . It is the unifying qu...

In the beginning of our tenure as directors of the Teaching & Learning Center, we were happy just to find facilitators for our professional learning communi...

So now that you have a Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL) to run, you’re going to have to decide what kind of programming to offer. Your supervisor has provi...

According to a 2005 survey by Sorcinelli et al as reported in Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), respondents identified eight key issues for CTL...

Years ago Paul Simon told us that “I’d rather be a hammer than a nail.” In essence, every Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL) has to decide what it wants to b...

Is the term “innovative faculty development” actually redundant? In our way of thinking, faculty development—mostly because of its youth—necessitate...

Have you discovered like us that when you go to professional conferences, the most enjoyable and productive moments occur when you are sitting down informally w...

In “Preparing New Faculty for Leadership:  Understanding and Addressing Needs (To Improve the Academy 33.1, September 2014, 57-73), Kelsch and Hawthorne point o...