Coping with Resistance to Faculty Development

Coping with Resistance to Faculty Development

Coping with Resistance to Copper / Silver Disinfection

www.waterinfocenter.com The biocidal effects of copper and silver have been used for centuries. The early Greeks and Romans made water storage and drinking vessels out of these metals, and enough dissolved in the water stored in them to produce substantial disinfection. More recently, copper and silver ions have been used in hospital, recreational, drinking and industrial water systems. Unlike ...

Effective Approaches to Faculty Development

My job is to start us off by addressing these questions: What is effective faculty development? And how does one achieve the goal of providing effective faculty development? These are critical questions and ones that I suspect you have been asking yourself. In fact, these questions may have served as the impetus for coming to this meeting. I hope, in the next 30 minutes to begin to answer these...

Junior faculty core curriculum to enhance faculty development

INTRODUCTION Senior Instructors and Assistant Professors in their first academic appointment may not have all the tools for an efficient start to their careers. Although many institutions provide access to mentoring programs and seminars on faculty development, the timing and format of the offerings often conflict with ongoing responsibilities of the faculty, particularly clinical faculty. ME...

Examining Faculty Motivation to Participate in Faculty Development

In response to demands for public accountability and improved teaching and learning, institutions are recognizing the need to strengthen their faculty development programs. Central to strengthening faculty development programs is increasing faculty participation in these programs. This mixed-method study examined the motivation of full and part-time faculty to seek development, obstacles to att...