Front Line Faculty Development: Chairs Constructively Critiquing Colleagues in the Classroom

On-Line Activities Co-Chairs

Remote gesturing visualization contributes to the efficiency of distant collaboration tasks because it enables coordination among participant's action and talk. This paper presents computer vision improvements of VideoArms, a collaborative system proposed by Tang et al. coupling a sensitive board with a video capture of participant's gesture. The main contributions address robustness, constrain...

Faculty Development and the Inclusion of Diversity in the College Classroom: Pedagogical and Curricular Transformation

On the front line.

14 The drylands are on the front line of climate change, and they include the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We are already seeing in them the harrowing effects of climate change on poverty, survival, health, hunger, human well-being — and on peace itself, because the heavily impacted drylands are among the most unstable parts of the world. The stretch from Senegal through to Afgha...

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...

Faculty field guide for promoting student civility in the classroom.

Student incivility is defined as rude and disruptive behavior that, when left unaddressed, may spiral into aggressive or violent behavior. Nursing faculty are challenged by uncivil student behavior and many are underprepared to deal with its effects. Some faculty members consider leaving nursing education because of the serious toll that incivility often takes on their personal and professional...