This case study describes how faculty members at Grinnell College, a small, highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college, create and maintain what in many ways is an ideal Writing Across the Curriculum program. Curricular elements of this program have been in place for more than twenty years: the tutorial, where Grinnell students focus on writing intensively in a one-semester course taug...

Over the past several decades, numerous reports have been published advocating for changes to undergraduate science education. These national calls inspired the formation of the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology (SI), a group of regional workshops to help faculty members learn and implement interactive teaching methods. The SI curriculum promotes a pedag...

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

We present findings from the SciTrain University project, particularly as it relates to faculty development efforts. SciTrain University is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to improve the accessibility of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for students with disabilities. In this case study we investigate two broad research questions. First,...

It is not easy being a new engineering faculty member (either as a newly minted PhD or as a new faculty member to the university) and harder still to find one’s bearings when faced with a demanding course load, the stress of demonstrating solid output from a new research agenda, and multiple service commitments. It is even more challenging to get established when the department (or university) ...