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
