Category: Faculty & Staff Development

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...

Years ago before our university even had a Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL), it ran a faculty consultation process. One faculty member directed a cadre of ...

We recently explained the importance of space and instructor placement in Pedagogy Day, the opening day of our innovated New Faculty Orientation. But now that w...

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...

In Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al posit that faculty development has “entered a new age—the Age of the Network. Faculty, de...

You might think that with our past two posts being on Pedagogy Day that we had pretty much covered the subject, but innovation has struck again, spurred by nece...

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...

By far our most important innovation for faculty development at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) has been Pedagogy Day. Our last post discussed innovating New ...

Since it’s that time of year when New Faculty Orientation is almost upon us, we’re once again excited and renewed about the opportunity. Yet, a little over a de...

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