This paper stresses the importance to students and residents of committed and competent teaching by residents who nationwide provide 20% to 70% of the clinical teaching for medical students. The obstacles to teaching effectiveness by residents are the lack of: (1) sufficient role modeling by faculty; (2) time (and money); (3) knowledge of the principles of adult learning and teaching techniques...

The Neuroscience and Humanities Summer Institute, hosted by Allegheny College, opened doors of opportunity, perception, and creativity for faculty and students across the nation. Offered first in 2002, and a second time in June of 2004, this weeklong event was designed to provide a medium for fostering development of interdisciplinary courses linking neuroscience and the humanities (e.g., the f...

The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) facilitates the use of modern genomics methods in undergraduate education. Initially focused on microarray technology, but with an eye toward diversification, GCAT is a community working to improve the education of tomorrow's life science professionals. GCAT participants have access to affordable microarrays, microarray scanners, free software fo...

Many studies have focused on understanding the novice nursing faculty experiences on their roles and challenges that they encounter. But there are merely little evidences about Iranian novice nursing faculty experiences to perform their roles. In many universities of Iran, a novice faculty has to attend in a set of educational workshops (e.g. teaching and assessment methods), which are not base...

Organizational and professional support structures can provide tools resources to help academic librarians address the challenges of research publishing. At USF Libraries, a Research Publishing committee was created by faculty develop development support, with aim encouraging community culture research. The committee's work resulted in series workshops, discussion groups, guiding documents, too...

This article reviews a virtual professional development program for STEM faculty conducted in 2020 which, due to COVID, participants had adjust their teaching practices. The study found that the program's structure, focus, and ability foster community helped sustain members. Participants shared lessons learned through workshops they led others on campuses.

Higher education has recently faced new challenges and responsibilities such as higher expectations to contribute to national and regional developments; considerable cuts in public funds, and the highly competitive educational markets. Previous research has suggested a positive association between development of human capitals in higher education institutions and their capacity to deal with the...

This chapter presents the experiences of adjunct faculty in SAGE 2YC: Faculty as Change Agents project through stories five participants who share influence on them and their work. We describe professional development that occurred project, which included learning with colleagues from across country, implementing changes classroom teaching beyond, leading follow-on workshops teams campus and/or...