The Organization is the Solution
We’ve explained how our CTL is guided by a principle we call the law of organizational entropy—when everybody is in charge, nobody is in charge. The obvio...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
The Law of Organizational Entropy and Faculty Innovators
Periodically we run across, in various fields from religion to education, a principle from organizational psychology that while often rendered in slightly diffe...
A Quick Review of The Slow Professor
In our favorite film comedy of all time, Back to School (1986), a classroom scene highlights the difference between an ivory-tower econ instructor and Rodney Da...
Expanding Your Center of Teaching and Learning Services
When should a CTL take on additional duties? Throughout this blog’s history we have continually addressed the subject of what responsibilities should register o...
Why the Academic Blog?
Over the past decade blogs have proliferated on the Internet. Among those are the academic blog, which has all kinds of subgenres. We have a colleague, for inst...
Showcasing A Higher Ed Professional Learning Community
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) already play a large part in our faculty development program. Usually the semester after they finish, PLCs are invited ...
Re-Inventing New Higher Ed Faculty Orientation
According to Beach, Sorcinelli, Austin, and Rivard in Faculty Development in the Age of Evidence (2016), at the top of their list of “Directors [of CTLs] Signat...
Making Mid-Course Corrections
As long as we’ve been writing blog posts on faculty development, we’ve been stressing the importance of innovating on the fly, of being willing to use the desig...
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 ...
The Personal Pedagogic Inventory
Like a lot of other Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs), we remain convinced that today’s faculty do not receive the necessary pedagogic training in gradua...