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Ua37/15 Faculty Personal Papers Glenn Dooley, Wku Archives
Ua37/15 Faculty Personal Papers Glenn Dooley, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Gradebooks for chemistry courses taught by Glenn Dooley and his biography.
Ua37/17 Faculty Personal Papers Robert Green, Wku Archives
Ua37/17 Faculty Personal Papers Robert Green, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Documents regarding Robert Green and his work at Western Kentucky University. The bulk is correspondence regarding students, speaking engagements, county institutes and ordering textbooks.
Ua37/20 Faculty Personal Papers - Margie Helm, Wku Archives
Ua37/20 Faculty Personal Papers - Margie Helm, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Documents related to Margie Helm, her career as Western Kentucky University's librarian, professional affiliations and the naming of the university library in her honor.
Ua37/23 Faculty Personal Papers Earl Moore, Wku Archives
Ua37/23 Faculty Personal Papers Earl Moore, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Documents regarding Earl Moore and his work at Western Kentucky University. The bulk relates to WHAS radio programs which includes scripts, lists of music performed, correspondence with the radio station and fan mail. The remaining records include information on Phi Beta Kappa, the Class of 1937, grade sheets and some personal correspondence.
Ua95/1 Glasgow Normal School Publications, Wku Archives
Ua95/1 Glasgow Normal School Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about the Glasgow Normal School. The series includes the first catalog, a pamphlet and James Cornette's history of the school.
Ua95/2 Glasgow Normal School Ads, Wku Archives
Ua95/2 Glasgow Normal School Ads, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
This series consists of an advertisement clipped from the April 28, 1888 Louisville Courier-Journal.
Ua96/1 Southern Normal School Publications, Wku Archives
Ua96/1 Southern Normal School Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about the Southern Normal School. Series includes recruitment materials such as advertisements and flyers; course catalogs; student newspaper The Southern Educator and the announcement that the Southern Normal School will become Western Kentucky State Normal School.
Ua96/3 Southern Normal School Registrar, Wku Archives
Ua96/3 Southern Normal School Registrar, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about the Registrar of the Southern Normal School. The series is mainly comprised of class lists and registers. There are a few records relating to individual admissions and payment of tuition. Commencement programs and speeches by N.H. Gardner and Henry Cherry are included. See also Series 1 for course catalogs.
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
About the editors and authors of volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Despite its ubiquity as the way that instructors represent their views on teaching and learning, the statement of teaching philosophy can be a frustrating document to write and the results are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to help faculty and graduate students craft teaching statements. We describe the research that informed the creation of the rubric, talk about how we use the rubric in our consultations and workshops, and present an assessment that validates the use of the rubric to improve instructors’ teaching statements.
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Results from a nationwide study of teaching awards programs in mathematics departments of U.S. research universities show that only a small percentage even offers such awards. Those that do either use ad hoc procedures and criteria for making awards or prioritize curricular contributions over instructional and pedagogical knowledge in selecting award winners. In addition, mathematics faculty reserve the term scholarship for research in the discipline rather than research on teaching of the discipline.
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although universities are aware of the need to promote diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), this awareness has not translated into significant changes in classroom environments. Many STEM instructors would like to offer equal opportunities for success to all of their students, but they are not sure where to begin. We describe an effective group of teaching tools that can empower STEM faculty and graduate students to modify their courses to address diversity at their own pace. These resources extend from awareness exercises to recommendations for action and have been useful tools for course design, teaching assistant training, …
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Integrative learning challenges faculty developers to facilitate integrative and connective experiences not only for students, but for faculty as well. For many faculty, curricular requirements impede connective teaching, and the widespread assumption that connectivity must be taught on the course level also limits their ability to enrich students’ learning through diverse perspectives and interactions. Nexia is an approach to this problem based on the concept of ad hoc connectivity, or small-scale, focused, short-term connections that allow students from two or more courses to interact around points of interest to both classes. By releasing connective teaching from expensive curricular constraints, the …
A Mixed-Method Study Of The Environmental And Personal Factors That Influence Faculty Research Productivity At Small-Medium, Private, Doctorate-Granting Universities, Gustavo Gregorutti
A Mixed-Method Study Of The Environmental And Personal Factors That Influence Faculty Research Productivity At Small-Medium, Private, Doctorate-Granting Universities, Gustavo Gregorutti
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Problem. This study sought to determine what organizational factors and personal characteristics of faculty members most relate to research productivity at small- to medium-sized not-for-profit, private, doctorate-granting universities.
Method. A mixed methodology was used that included an online survey, follow-up email surveys, and two face-to-face interviews. The main statistical tools used were multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and regression. The final sample came from 12 small- to medium-size, private, not-for-profit doctorate-granting American universities. A group of 277 professors responded to the online survey. An online follow-up qualitative survey was conducted with 34 replies. Two additional face-to-face interviews were …
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of the literature related to stereotype threat in an effort to provide faculty members and instructional developers with a better understanding of what the phenomenon is and what can be done about it in college classroom settings. To this end, we reviewed several of the major studies published on the subject between 1995 and 2005 and compiled a list of strategies that reflected both the major empirical findings on stereotype threat and our own research and experiences with faculty and students in college settings. Given the enormity of the subject, …
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This study documents an emerging profile of the faculty status of faculty developers as solicited, compiled, and interactively interpreted with faculty developer practitioners. It used integrated (mixed) methodology and participatory research strategies to gather data and it shares descriptive statistical information on the various positions held by faculty developer respondents; qualitatively analyzed impressions of the importance of faculty status to their credibility and effectiveness as faculty developers; and information regarding respondents’ institutional contexts. Findings are further disaggregated across institutional contexts and sex to explore trends, differential perceptions, and other emergent issues as identified by participant researchers.
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Extensive annotated bibliographies have guided academic researchers over several years and in various disciplines, providing key resources to assist in the development of new ideas. However, less common are published annotated bibliographies on effective teaching resources, both general to teaching across various disciplines as well as specific to each discipline, that guide the academic in the teaching enterprise. This chapter focuses on a tool, the teaching resource portfolio, that helps the graduate student preparing for an academic career including teaching, the new faculty member desiring additional teaching resources, the academic wishing to have resources that support discipline-specific scholarship of teaching …
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Bibliography for volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although the liberal arts college, with its traditional focus on teaching, may seem like a natural environment for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), few such institutions participate in national SoTL initiatives. Our associates’ experience since 2001 suggests a model for supporting SoTL in teaching-intensive contexts based on faculty ownership, a focus on general education, and some emerging rules of engagement. Because faculty reward systems must validate SoTL if it is to become part of the institutional culture, we also describe one department’s efforts to reform its review criteria in order to define scholarly activity broadly.
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
While autobiographical narratives and case study reflections remain vital to faculty development research, we must also make substantive efforts to build theory in our field. Researchers making claims about collective meanings of observed behaviors and the mechanisms that underlie them (i.e., theoretical claims about social behavior) must be disciplined in how they identify and organize the evidence they use to support those claims. Such systematic, inductive theory-building in the social sciences is called “grounded theory” research. This chapter presents the basics of grounded theory research, describes a grounded theory research program currently being executed by faculty developers, and offers practical …
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter describes how we incorporated project-based learning into a yearlong faculty development program at a research-intensive private university located in the Midwest. This inquiry-based approach fosters critical reflection on teaching and promotes learner-focused teaching in a manner that encourages deeper student approaches to learning. We use case studies, drawn from critical accounts of faculty projects, to illustrate a model that depicts how faculty understand improvement in their teaching and to identify key program elements that facilitated the adoption of learning-focused teaching practices by our participants.
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Reflecting on what we are doing can help us become better teachers and better people; yet in our increasingly busy and stressful lives, how can we find the space and time? This chapter describes and exemplifies two strategies that can help us and our colleagues become more reflective about our teaching and about our vocation: the Teachers’ Reading Circle, meeting for regular discussions of provocative texts about teaching and learning, and the Teachers’ Writing Circle, using prompts and examples of colleagues’ writing to set participants on an extended course of writing about their own teaching.
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter examines the most common technologies used for teaching on college campuses and the most common barriers to advanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show that the major barriers to incorporating technology into higher education are lack of faculty time, faculty doubts about the relevancy of technology to disciplinary learning, and inadequate technical support for faculty projects and technology uses. This chapter, then, proposes several approaches developed and assessed by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan for removing those barriers to technology uses in higher education. Although providing flexible technology …
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Traditional mentoring programs usually have no mechanism for Protégés to learn from each other, and they often match protégés with mentors sight unseen. Team mentoring is a less hierarchical program in which protégés mentor each other in a group while searching for more permanent and personal mentors. In this program, protégés and mentors are arguably better matched because mentors are chosen by the Protégé. In addition, Protégés benefit by tapping into the wisdom of their peers. As a result, team mentoring is a viable alternative to traditional mentoring programs.
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Our faculty development center engaged senior-level business students as consultants to help us inform instructors about our resources. The students argued that organizational and marketing tasks are critical to our pedagogical work as they create opportunities for the pedagogical work to occur. This chapter describes the collaboration, the students’ recommendations, and the center’s response. Engaging students, our ultimate clients, in setting priorities for our center was a powerful learning experience for both us and them. Other centers may wish to use our experiences as impetus to collaborate with students on their campuses.
Easing Entry Into The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Through Focused Assessments: The “Decoding The Disciplines” Approach, Joan K. Middendorf, David Pace
Easing Entry Into The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Through Focused Assessments: The “Decoding The Disciplines” Approach, Joan K. Middendorf, David Pace
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Students’ difficulty in mastering material can motivate faculty toward the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) if instructors’ frustration can be framed as a researchable question, and they have practical models for assessing learning outcomes. The “decoding the disciplines” approach supports this shift from reflective teaching to SoTL. By focusing on narrowly defined bottlenecks to learning, faculty define researchable questions convincing to their disciplines. The specificity of these inquiries makes the assessment of learning much easier through the application of existing tools, such as those provided in Angelo and Cross’s Classroom Assessment Techniques (1993). Example of specific assessments are provided.
Points Without Limits: Individual Inquiry, Collaborative Investigation, And Collective Scholarship, Richard A. Gale
Points Without Limits: Individual Inquiry, Collaborative Investigation, And Collective Scholarship, Richard A. Gale
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter proposes that a scholarship of teaching and learning focused on collaborative and collective inquiry can be more effective and have greater impact on student learning and the advancement of knowledge than investigations accomplished by individual faculty and students working in isolation. This conclusion is arrived at as a result of examining the work of Carnegie Scholars and the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Campus Program participants since 1998.
Ethical Guidelines For Educational Developers
Ethical Guidelines For Educational Developers
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Ethical guidelines for educational developers prepared by Mintz, Smith, & Warren, January 1999. Revised March 1999, September 1999, and March 2000.