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Nine Keys To Enhancing Campus Wide Influence Of Faculty Development Centers, Martin Nemko, Ronald D. Simpson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Enhancing the Influence of FDCs

1. Report to the top

2. Give due credit to the boss

3. Help the boss solve problems

4. Give things away

5. Involve faculty in your efforts

6. Build relationships with other campus leaders

7. Publish a ''must have" newsletter

8. Sponsor nurturing activities

9. Don't act like an empire builder

Summary

Coping With The Academic "Tragedy Of The Commons": Renovating Classrooms At Carnegie Mellon University, Edwin Fenton

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Carnegie Mellon: A Case Study

The situation

1. An action plan and its recommendations

2. The Educational Facilities Committee

3. The results: improved facilities and enhanced learning

4. What we have learned

Conclusion

References

Gender And Racial Differences Among A Research University Faculty: Recommendations For Promoting Diversity, Deborah Olsen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Method

Sample

Measures

Results and Discussion

Career path

Major responsibilities and role interests

Career commitment and job satisfaction

Balance between work and personal life

Recommendations

References

Putting The Teaching Portfolio In Context, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

What is the Teaching Portfolio?

Five Reasons for the Viability of the Teaching Portfolio

The Teaching Portfolio and the New Scholarship

Conclusion

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

What Every Faculty Development Professional Needs To Know About Higher Education, Daniel R. Rice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction

Four Frames or Perspectives

Application of the Frames

Conclusion

References

The Feminization Of Academia, Deborah Du Nann Winter

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty Development as a Feminist Activity

The Marginalization of Faculty Development

The Feminization of Academia

Faculty Development as a Feminist Agenda

References

Ua1b4 1991 Faculty Awards, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Program for 1991 WKU faculty awards program.

Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletter for 1991.

Ua77/1 Alumni, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Archives Records

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Education Doctorate Proposal Withdrawn
• Western’s Budget Hit by State Revenue Shortfalls
• Meredith, Thomas. Continuing the Dream – Kentucky Museum
• Watkins, Dianne. The Kentucky Museum: A Hidden Jewel
• Hodges, Pat. The Shakers of South Union
• McGuire, Sue. War Letters from Somewhere In . . . – Frances Richards, World War II
• Mills, Connie. A Rather Political Collection – Julius Rather
• The Kentucky Museum Collection
• Staebell, Sandra. Invasion of the Toy Soldiers
• The Henry Hardin Cherry Society
• Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet
• Coal Science Program Receives $50,000 Endowment
• Campus Construction Continues – Preston Health & Activities Center, Meredith …

The Eclipse Of Equality Of Opportunity?, Simon Marginson

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Equality of opportunity has been the most important organising principle in education policies in postwar Australia. Equality of opportunity was central to the expansion of publicly-funded education: the promise of upward social mobility through education had broad appeal. Equality of opportunity objectives are now being displaced by the newer and more limited concept of market equity. Equality of opportunity usually implies equality of the educational resources provided to each child, and sometimes goes further to mean positive discrimination in favour of the disadvantaged. However, equity is usually understood only as the right to participate in education. Whereas economic objections used …