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Programs And Practitioners: We Do What We Are, Stephen R. Phillips

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Teaching has sometimes been described as "a function of personality." Although clearly an oversimplification of a complex and difficult activity, the concept nevertheless has considerable merit; what we as teachers can do or are willing to try in the classroom and in our relationships with our colleagues, our students, and our institutions is in many ways determined by what we are as people. In a similar way, what we as individuals involved in faculty development can or are willing to do with or for faculty, administrators and students is as much a function of our personalities as of the skills …

Cartoon, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Cartoon by Robert M. Diamond

The Pod Research Committee, B. Claude Mathis

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

When the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education was formed, the idea of recognizing research through the efforts of a research committee had a low priority among all the plans necessary to giving birth to an organization as eclectic as POD. The Network demonstrated very clearly at the Fourth Annual Conference in Oklahoma during November 1978 that POD is an idea which has survived the personal excitements which helped to create it. An interest in research and the dissemination of research results has emerged with strong support from the membership. The several meetings of the Research Committee at …

Resources For Faculty Development With Sociologists, Charles A. Goldsmid

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

POD members doing faculty development with sociologists or with departments of sociology have a substantial number of resources on which they can draw. Following a brief introduction, this article lists major sources of material and other forms of assistance. Specific contacts, addresses, organizations and journals are noted.

Executive Director's Message, Mary Lynn Crow

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

By the time you read this, I will have completed my year as Executive Director, but I was asked to author the first column in an attempt to provide continuity and a kind of overview.

In another part of this first issue of the POD Quarterly there appears a chronological history of the organization, so I feel that it might be useful and interesting to provide a kind of emotional history of the organization as well. To portray this history, I have selected an analogy from the field of human growth and development because this is one of the courses …

The Future Of Faculty Development, David O. Justice

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Reading the future is a risky business for the most thoughtful and prescient minds. I was therefore surprised to be asked to address the future of faculty development in view of the fact that I already have a record of predictions. I predicted, for example, 'Richard Nixon will never resign'; 'The Cardinals will stick with an Italian-Pope' and 'there will be a cabinet level Department of Education in 1978'.

With this record behind me, I will nonetheless tum my talents to faculty development and present my thoughts about its future. I should point out that I use the term faculty …

Faculty Development: An Historical Perspective, Rosemary Park

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

On this program concerned with faculty development I have been asked to speak about the past, when there was no concept of faculty development as we know it and little concern on the institution's part or on the profession's for the growth and continuing vitality of the teaching staff. It was an age of unshared authority and of free enterprise where some succeeded and others failed, and no one cared to know why.

My brief account of more than 300 years of educational history may induce a comparative euphoria, and in that sense it belongs to the end of this …

Program Summary Fourth Annual National Conference, Clare Rose

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

FOCUS ON THE ORGANIZATION

FOCUS ON STUDENTS

FOCUS ON INSTRUCTION

FOCUS ON FACULTY

FOCUS ON ADMINISTRATION

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOPS

INVITED PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

INVITED SESSIONS

Book Reviews, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Teaching Students by Donald Bligh et al., reviewed by Glenn F. Nyre

On College Teaching, ed. by Ohmer Milton, reviewed by Luann Wilkerson

Helplessness: On Development, Depression, and Death by Martin E. P. Seligman, reviewed by Lance C. Buhl, Ph.D.

Conference Retrospective, Clare Rose

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

POD's Fourth Annual Conference, held at Shangri-La on November 5-8, 1978, is now past history. Just in case those of you who were not in attendance are thinking we were off on some South Sea Island, I hasten to add that this Shangri-La is a conference center in Afton, Oklahoma, and although it is very lovely, the 206 registrants came to work, learn, teach, and relax a little.

Conference Evaluation Report Summary, Glenn F. Nyre

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Thirty-four states, the District of Columbia and Canada were represented at POD's Fourth Annual Conference. (As your truthful evaluator, I must "come clean" and confess that POD is really only three years old. How, then, you might ask, can we have held a Fourth Annual Conference? It's easy. We just co-opted the conference out of which POD grew and called it our own so people would not think we were some upstart organization. If I tell you this, could I falsify anything which follows?) Texas was represented by 16 people, California by 13, and Illinois and New Jersey were the …

Pod Quarterly: The Journal Of The Professional And Organizational Development Network In Higher Education (Spring 1979)

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Cover Page

Contents Page includes Editorial, Articles, Departments, POD Network Committees, Officers and Representatives, Addresses, Feedback Forum.

Exchange, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

This section contains Questions and Answers together with the address of the contributor. Questions will not be answered in subsequent issues and Answers are not in response to Questions raised in a prior issue. Rather, the purpose is to facilitate the personal contact of people with answers to those with Questions and people who wish to find out more about the Answers with the contributors. Please submit either Questions or Answers to the current editor.

Pod Network Committees, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Core Committee

Officers

1979 Executive Committee

Committee and Task Force Chairs

Regional Service Representatives

Addresses

Calendar, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Items in this section are events taking place during a six-month period, no sooner than a month after the appearance of the journal. Information on events to be listed in the calendar should be sent to the current editor. A brief statement as to why a POD member would be interested in the event would be helpful.

Feedback Forum, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Whither POD goest, I shall follow with my evaluation forms. Although an official and on-going questionnaire will evolve along with the Quarterly itself, what is needed at this time is input from the readership concerning emphases and directions for future issues. The desire of the Editorial Board is to publish a journal for POD-types which is topical, helpful, interesting and all sorts of other good things. Please let us know to what degree this has been achieved in the first issue, as well as what you think should or could be done in the future, by answering the following questions. …

The Pod Professional Relations And Membership Committee, D. Joseph Clark

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) was founded by a small group of pioneering faculty and professional developers who established a support network and became close friends. The subsequent evolution of POD was in the direction of a professional association, as evidenced by its current activities: (1) an annual conference, (2) the expansion of its membership, and (3) the sponsoring of activities which reach beyond the membership.

To assist POD in sensible growth and development, the Professional Relations and Membership Committee was formed and assigned three major functions: (1) to monitor the composition of the POD …

Pod: The Founding Of A National Network, Joan North, Stephen C. Scholl

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

In the 1970's we have witnessed an explosion in the number of committtees, offices, positions within colleges, regional and national projects devoted to the renewal of institutions through "faculty development," especially the improvement of instruction. The spectre of "no growth" for higher education had accelerated a common concern for the quality of teaching and learning. By 1974 foundations such as Danforth, Kellogg and Lilly and agencies such as HEW -- especially its new Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education -- were seeding a variety of new teaching improvement programs. Many faculty and administrators were quickly launched into activities for …

Editor's Message, Spring 1979, David L. Outcalt

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Welcome to the first issue of POD Quarterly. The purpose of this journal is to provide information on resources and discussion of issues of direct interest to POD members as well as to provide news of POD. It is intended to do so in such a way as to encourage and facilitate linkage among POD members. A perusal of the table of contents (on the back cover) will indicate the means of carrying out that purpose: Editorial features, regular Departments, and refereed Articles.

News, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The News section is intended to provide notice of change in activity of POD members or other news of interest to readers. Please submit items to the current editor.

Contributors, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Editorial Information, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

POD Quarterly is a publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education. POD is an association of people bound together by an interest in improving higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development activities and programs. The Network was created in 1976 so that those who share common interests and concerns could exchange information, ideas, and resources; enhance professional skills; debate issues and strategies; and contemplate and plan for the future. The POD Quarterly is designed to further those aims through refereed articles about professional, organizational, and instructional development practice and research. It will also include …

Participants - 1979 Pod National Conference

POD Network Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Information On Conference Sessions

POD Network Conference Materials

Holistic Practices for Growth and Self-Management

Keynote, Workshops, Panels, Formal Presentations, Demonstration of Model Programs, Special Sessions

Core Committee 1978-79

POD Network Conference Materials

Photograph

Conference Demographics And Evaluation Summary, Glenn F. Nyre

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Thirty-four states, the District of Columbia and Canada were represented at POD's Fifth Annual Conference at Fairfield Glade, Tennessee. This introductory sentence should sound vaguely familiar to many of the Quarterly's readers, since it is numerically the same as last years' opening summary report statement. Tennessee and Canada, with 13 participants each, wrested top honors from last year's winner, Texas, which fell from 16 to 9 participants. Other double-digit states were Ohio and Virginia, with 11 each, and California and Illinois, with 10 each.

(Space considerations dictate the inclusion of this abridged version of the 1979 Conference Evaluation Report …

Differing Student And Faculty Perceptions Of Teaching Effectiveness And The Value Of Student Evaluations, George E. Stevens, R. Penny Marquette

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Over the past decade, the use of student evaluations of teacher effectiveness has grown in popularity. The student typically completes a standardized evaluation form for the teachers of classes in which he or she is enrolled. Not only are more schools using this method of assessing teacher effectiveness, many also use the results to make faculty retention, promotion, salary, tenure and other personnel decisions. As Centra (1972) indicates, the question is no longer whether college teaching should be evaluated; it is how, when and by whom? Although various approaches to measuring teaching effectiveness exist (i.e., peer ratings, superior ratings, classroom …

Cse, Mo And Aa: Three Evaluation Strategies, Glenn F. Nyre, Clare Rose

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

A model for, a method of, and an approach to evaluation are summarized and discussed in this column. The CSE model, developed at UCLA's Center for the Study of Evaluation, is a decision-oriented model; the Modus Operandi Method presents an alternative strategy which can be used when experimental or quasi-experimental designs cannot be used; and the Adversary Approach suggests a process through which all positive and negative features of a program can be identified.

Pod Quarterly: The Journal Of The Professional And Organizational Development Network In Higher Education (Winter 1979)

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Cover Page

Contents Page includes Editorial, Articles, Departments, Evaluation, Index to Volume 1 (1979).

Book Reviews, Winter 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Investment in Learning: The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education by Howard R. Bowen, reviewed by Diane L. Johnson

Behavioral Instruction: An Evaluative Review by Kent R. Johnson and Robert S. Ruskin, reviewed by Marilla D. Svinicki

The Adult's Learning Projects: A Fresh Approach to Theory and Practice in Adult Learning by Allen Tough, reviewed by Stephen C. Scholl

Adaptation to Life by George E. Vaillant, reviewed by John Anderson