To Improve the Academy / JB - Anker Bd.31 (PDF)

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational
Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the
Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education
to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs,
faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers,
and educational consultants.

Contents include:

* Professional development for geographically dispersed
faculty

* Implementing a learning consortium for communication and
change

* Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment

* What educational developers need to know about
faculty-artists

* Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty

* Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers

* Mentoring in higher education

* Tough-love consulting in order to effect change

* Research on the impact of educational development

* Examining effective faculty practice

* Insights on millennial students

* Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers

* Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation
terminology

* Questions about student ratings

* Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online
instruction

* Supporting international faculty

* Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and
learning

* Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial
inclusion

* The truth about students' capacity for multitasking

* Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter
backchannel

* Designing active learning with flexible technology