On-going and college-wide faculty development

Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty

This article first examines the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tests whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing. A randomly based national survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities finds that liberals and Democrats outnumber conservatives and Republicans by large margins, and the differences are not limited to e...

Reframing research on faculty development.

Research on faculty development has focused primarily on individual participants and has produced relatively little generalizable knowledge that can guide faculty development programs. In this article, the authors examine how current research on faculty development in medical education can be enriched by research in related fields such as teacher education, quality improvement, continuing medic...

Asynchronous Learning and Faculty Development: Evolving College-Level Online Instruction and Empowered Learning

A phenomenological study of higher education faculty experiences with course content adaptation, methodological changes, and program assessment, this paper summarizes both psychological and work-effort considerations for creating online learning environments. Using journaling, student responses and interviews, the qualitative, two-year study yielded consistent conclusions regarding the need for...

For The Teagle Foundation Cognition and Brain Development in Students of Traditional College - Going Age

Project Parameters: This bibliography was compiled during a summer internship at the Teagle Foundation. I am a doctoral student interested in how our current understanding of brain development and cognition might be applied to writing instruction. Because of time constraints, this bibliography does not represent a comprehensive review of scholarly literature. I instead targeted literature revie...

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