Dean, Chairs, and Faculty: A Team Approach for Enhancing Faculty Diversity

Views of family medicine department Chairs about mentoring junior faculty.

Mentoring can be a key component contributing to the success of faculty. We investigated the attitudes of family medicine department Chairs toward mentoring, with emphasis on mentoring female and minority faculty. This qualitative inquiry used semi-structured interviews with 13 Chairs of US departments of family medicine. Although most Chairs felt that mentoring had value, a minority of our sam...

Write On! A Model for Enhancing Faculty Publication

This case study presents the rationale and context for a one-year campus-wide writing program designed to raise the confidence and productivity of campus faculty and professional staff members. The program is analyzed in terms of a discussion of overall faculty development, and leadership models (e.g., illustrating how senior faculty could actively assist junior faculty to envision and invest i...

A Comprehensive Approach to Enhancing Faculty Use of Mobile Technology for Teaching

Zayed University (ZU), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), offers bachelorand master-level programs to about 10,000 Emirati students across two campuses, one in Abu Dhabi and one in Dubai. Since 2012, ZU has been involved in the federal UAE Mobile Learning Initiative, which aims to promote the use of mobile devices for classroom teaching and learning at government schools and universities in an ...

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Faculty development for underrepresented minority dental faculty and residents.

This report describes the implementation and evaluation of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Dental Faculty Development Program (DFDP) for fifteen participants: five advanced dental education faculty members and ten residents. The 100-hour DFDP, designed in the longitudinal immersion model for faculty development, was conducted in four phases at the Bronx-Lebanon Department of Dentistry in the ...