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Pod Network News, December 1996

POD Network News

POD Conference Communiqués: Many Thanks to Conference Volunteers, Future Conference Sites, 1997 Conference, Call for Proposals

Core Committee News: Core Committee Report, Core Committee Elections, Information Request, POD Joins ICED

Your Thoughts on POD

Bright Ideas

Regional Association Overview

An Invitation to POD Retirees for Membership Emeritus/Emerita

WWW Workings: Pages on Practice, New Home Page

Conferences

New Journal

New Books

Member News

FIPSE Participation Opportunity

Call for Manuscripts

POD Electronic Mailing List

POD Network News Submissions

Defining the Field Survey

For You to Do

Developing Learning Communities: Seven Promising Shifts And Seven Powerful Levers, Thomas A. Angelo

POD Network Conference Materials

Seven Promising Shifts in Academic Culture

Select References

Earning The Right: A Model For Transcultural Practice, Cynthia A. Gray

POD Network Conference Materials

Background

Session Goals

Presentation methods

Pod Network News, May 1996

POD Network News

1996 Conference Theme: Scaling the Heights

From the President

Call for Manuscripts for Face to Face

Web Pages

Meetings

POD Authors

New Books

New Journals

Position Available

Special Thanks

To Improve the Academy: Associate Editor/Reviewer Self-Nomination Form

POD Network 1996-97 POD Grant Program

Proposal Format for 1996-97 POD Grant Program

Pod Network News, March 1996

POD Network News

New Leadership for POD Core Committee

POD at AAHE

POD Conference October 17-20, 1996 Snowbird, Utah

From the President

Bright Ideas Addition

Position Announcements

New World Wide Web Pages

POD Authors

Resources

Spring and Summer Conferences

The Teaching Professor, March 1996

POD Network Conference Materials

Lessons From 10 Exemplary Faculty

Cheating: An Analysis of Relevant Circumstances

"Demonstrating The Quality And Impact Of Faculty Development Workshops" And "Transforming Today's Teaching Assistants Into Tomorrow's Faculty: A Workshop For Ta Supervisors, Executive Summary"

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Demonstrating the Quality and Impact of Faculty Development Workshops, by James Eison:

Session Abstract

Session Objectives

Discussion Questions: Some Personal Observations

Transforming Today's Teaching Assistants into Tomorrow's Faculty: A Workshop for TA Supervisors, Executive Summary:

Introduction

Workshop Facilitators

Workshop Application Procedure

Workshop Participants

Workshop Goals

Workshop Assumptions

Workshop Topics and Calendar

Workshop Activities

Participants' Assignment

Post-workshop Activities

Workshop Evaluation Data

Ten Qualities Of Self-Renewing Faculty, Frederick M. Hudson

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1. They are value-driven.

2. They are connected to the world around them.

3. They require solitude and quiet.

4. They pace themselves.

5. They have contact with nature.

6. They are creative and playful.

7. They are adaptive to change.

8. They learn from down-time.

9. They are always in training.

10. They are future-oriented.

Financial Matters

POD Network Conference Materials

"Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck!" (From Your Faculty Development Funds), "Top Ten" Suggestions, by Dan Rice

Keeping the Books: Developing Financial Capacity in Your Nonprofit Press, by The Stevens Group

Glossary: Terms Used in Nonprofit Accounting, compiled by The Stevens Group with acknowledgement to the Public Management Institute and the Financial Accounting Standards Board

Creating and Managing Budgets for Faculty Development: Nuts and Bolts, by Lesley K. Cafarelli

Getting the "Biggest Bang for the Buck," by Phyllis Worthy Dawkins

Faculty Development Opportunities

Table of Contents

Pod Network, Scale The Heights, 1996, "Blind Review" Proposal Forms

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

1996 Pod Network Conference Attendees

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

1996 Pod Conference: Individual Session Evaluation Form

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No abstract provided.

Patterns In Telephone Interviews About Professional Development Activities Of Developers, Nancy Chism, Barbara Szabo

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Study Design

Major Patterns

Snowbird Center Information

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Working With Administration: Getting And Keeping Support For Professional Development Programs

POD Network Conference Materials

Outline

Positioning Your Office: The Real Organization Chart

Seven Competencies Required of Faculty Developers

Seven Competencies Required of Administrators

"Newe" ... Our People.

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Newe Group Facilitators

Purpose

Facilitator's Tasks

About Newe Groups

Scaling the Heights, National Conference 1996, POD Network: Newe Group Locations

Letter to POD Newe Facilitators

Responses from Newe One-Minute-Paper, October 1996:

1. What were the best, most productive aspects of your newe group?

2. What were the least effective, or productive, aspects of your newe group?

3. What suggestions do you have for improvements to the conference small group initiative (Newes, PODumbaughs and/or wasuk-la)?

Annual Conference Program

POD Network Conference Materials

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Mission Statement

Welcome, by Lynn Sorenson (Conference Chair), Ed Jensen (Program Coordinator), David Graf (Mgr. of Administrative Services)

1996-97 Core Committee

Executive Directors/Presidents

Acknowledgments

Conference Overview

Changes

Section Ii: Faculty Development

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The five articles focused on faculty development in this issue use assessment and surveys to bring us information on the state of our faculty.

Through The Lens Of Learning: How Experiencing Difficult Learning Challenges And Changes Assumptions About Teaching, Stephen Brookfield

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The author challenges faculty to cast themselves in the role of learners for tasks or subjects which, unlike their areas of expertise, do NOT come easily to them. The purpose is to better understand what it is to experience the struggle shared by many students to grasp new material. The author recounts his own efforts to master a daunting new skill and the many lessons he learned about teaching and learning in the process.

On Student Development In College: Evidence From The National Study Of Student Learning, Ernest T. Pascarella

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper summarizes some of the major findings of the National Study of Student Learning, a longitudinal investigation of the factors influencing student intellectual development at 23 diverse colleges and universities in 16 states. Findings from the following analyses are presented: effects of perceived teacher behaviors on general cognitive skills and internal locus of attribution; influences on critical thinking; cognitive effects of two- and four-year colleges; cognitive effects of historically Black and predominantly White colleges; and cognitive effects of Greek affiliation.

Section Iii: Organizational Development

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This section, in which the authors discuss institutional programs or approaches to teaching change, has three parts.

Partners In Pedagogy: Faculty Development Through The Scholarship Of Teaching, Gabriele B. Sweidel

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Partners in Pedagogy project uses a three-pronged plan of action to address faculty development through the scholarship of teaching: a) the formation of faculty pairs to conduct classroom observations of each other's teaching, b) interviews with three of each other's students, and c) collegial discussion, both between faculty pairs and cross-discipline at monthly meetings. The combination of monthly meetings to discuss pedagogy, feedback from peers concerning teaching methods and techniques unrelated to evaluations, student interviews, and cross-discipline participation contribute to the powerfulness of this campus-wide program.

Computer-Mediated Communication In The Classroom: Models For Enhancing Student Learning, Karin L. Sandell, Robert K. Stewart, Candace K. Stewart

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The introduction of computer-mediated communication into the college classroom has been a subject of concern to faculty interested both in exploring means of enhancing communication with their students and in facilitating students' learning about the technological revolution occurring in the business and professional worlds. The tools available to faculty include electronic mail (e-mail), bulletin boards, electronic conferencing, and electronic searching (or surfing) for information, via the Internet. This paper reviews the findings from different measures taken during a campus-wide project to test computer- mediated communication, in order to provide some suggestions about ways of enhancing the teaching-learning connection through classroom …

Professors As Clients For Instructional Development, Ronald A. Smith, George L. Geis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Although there is a large amount of activity and a sizeable literature in the area of instructional development, there has been relatively little research on faculty members, the clientele for improvement efforts. This paper highlights some characteristics of professors that are relevant to improvement activities. Professors are interested in, value, and work on their teaching; they think they teach rather well. However, they demonstrate a lack of sophistication in talking about teaching and the development of instruction. They focus primarily upon content rather than design or methodology. Teachers' views of what should be done to enhance instruction are discussed and …

A Department-Based Approach To Developing Teaching Portfolios: Perspectives For Faculty Developers, Milton D. Cox

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Department-Based Teaching Portfolio Project, now in its third year at Miami University, provides departments the flexibility to design and implement teaching development processes that honor the diversity of disciplines, departmental cultures, and leadership styles of department project coordinators. This approach has generated an interesting variety of departmental processes and results, for example, in the use of off-campus consultants and in the manner in which teaching portfolios are developed. Based upon the outcomes of the Project, 20 recommendations inform faculty developers in their roles as department developers.

Transforming Faculty Into An Agile Workforce, Robert Dove, Dina Wills

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Some institutions of higher education have begun to implement agile operational strategies as they work to take advantage of new technologies and respond to new demands made from their various constituencies. Key to the success of these agile strategies is the ability of the faculty to create an agile learning environment. This paper focuses on the role of the faculty developer in creating that agile environment. It presents concrete programming suggestions and a model for faculty developers to follow as they assume the role of helping faculty become agile.

Making The Transition From Soft To Hard Funding: The Politics Of Institutionalizing Instructional Development Programs, Mary L. Everley, Jan Smith

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The institutionalization of grant-funded instructional development programs is a political process. This paper reviews the experiences of programs that have both failed and succeeded to cross the hard-to-soft-money divide and the literature on planning and change in higher education, and offers strategies that will encourage institutionalization. Changing institutional culture, building a strong advocacy group, and gaining the support of key administrators are essential to program continuance.

Designing, Implementing And Assessing A University Technology-Pedagogy Institute, Devorah A. Lieberman, John Reuter

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article describes two models for designing and implementing technology-pedagogy institutes as part of university wide faculty development. Each model contains similar learning objectives for Institute participants, yet describes different institute designs. The authors describe the strengths and weaknesses of each model as learned through assessment evidence gathered during institutes on their campus. Assessment of student learning in relation to technology introduced within the class is discussed. Suggestions for more effective Institutes and assessment tools are addressed.

Experiences Of Newly Hired Faculty, Robert J. Menges

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty experiences during the first three years in a new job were investigated by following new hires at five colleges and universities. Their initial years are characterized by stress, dilemmas about how to allocate time to competing responsibilities, uncertainty about what is expected of them, and dissatisfaction with feedback about their progress. Faculty development offices can promote more enlightened policies and practices to help ease faculty transition into a new job.

Monitoring The Pulse Of The Faculty: Needs Assessment In Faculty Development Programs, Jon E. Travis, Dan Hursh, Gentry Lankewicz, Li Tang

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Although needs assessment is a common and necessary element of faculty development programs, the process never seems to be as easy or as effective as we might like it to be. Sadly, the literature is relatively weak in this all-important area of responsibility. Such a problem, no doubt, is due in part to the individual environment of each institution. Based on a presentation at the 1995 POD Conference, this article reviews a number of institutional approaches to gathering data from faculty, which may suggest some options for the reader.