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Developing Teaching Skills During Graduate Education, Robert M. Diamond, Franklin P. Wilbur

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Teaching Background of New Faculty

Administrative Options

Formal Instruction in Teaching

Courses Offered by Schools or Colleges of Education

Teaching Assistant Training Programs

Program Content

Common Elements

Case Studies

Where to Begin

Summary

References

The Freshman Seminar And Faculty Development, James P. Doyle

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Addressing the Needs of Students

From Student Development to Faculty Development

A New Teaching Experience

Expanding the Classroom

Sharing Our Lives

Living Our Values

The Teaching Initiative: With A $50,000 Gift From Allen Jossey-Bass, Aahe Launches A New Special Project On Teaching, Russell Edgerton

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preparing Faculty as Teachers

The Revival of Pedagogy

A Second Try at Turning Specialists into Professors

A Role for AAHE: The Teaching Initiative

Strategic Teaching: The Possible Dream, Linc. Fisch

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Strategic Teaching Process

Clarification of the Process

Making the Process Work

Reference

A Model For Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across The Curriculum, Barbara Flannery, Maureen Vanterpool

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Background

Purpose

Assumptions

Student Learning: Conceptual Frameworks for Culturally Receptive and Culturally Resistant Students

The Culturally Receptive Student: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives

The Culturally Resistant Student: Using Personal Relevance to Increase Salience of Cultural Diversity Concepts

A Model for Infusing Cultural Diversity Concepts Across the Curriculum: Combining Cognitive and Affective Learning Objectives and Personal Relevance

Applications of the Model: Two Case Studies

Teacher Education

Housing and Interior Design

Interdisciplinary Applications of the Model

References

Current And Desired Faculty Development Practices Among Pod Members, Joanne Kurfiss, Robert Boice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Method and Sample

Results

Program Structure and Evaluation

Current and Desired Practices

Importance of Teaching

Views of Faculty Development

Discussion

References

Workshops On Writing Blocks Increase Proposal Activity, Robert A. Lucas, Mary Kathryn Harrington

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Workshops on Writing Blocks Produce Increases in Proposal Writing

Fear of Failure Is a Major Impediment to Proposal Writing

Achieving the Effect Requires Conscious Application of Strategies to Counter Writing Blocks

Writing System Significantly Benefits New Faculty

Inexperienced Faculty Have Special Access to Internal and External Grants

Conclusion

References

Strategies For Monitoring And Improving Seminars: An Application In A Course On Managing Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Paul Mangiameli, Seetharama Narasimhan, Glenn R. Erickson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Course

Course Monitoring and Feedback Techniques

Using the Feedback

Discussion

References

Appendix

Integrating Teaching And Research: A Multidimensional Career Model, Mary Pat Mann

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Academic Matrix: Teaching and Research

Career Choices and Role Orientation

Expanding Faculty Development

1. Support the overall career development of faculty members

2. Assist faculty in developing their general professional skills

3. Involve faculty in scholarly work directly related to their teaching

Conclusion

References

Helping Faculty Build Learning Communities Through Cooperative Groups, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

What is Cooperative Learning?

Cooperative Learning Strategies

Research on Cooperative Learning

The Value of Cooperative Learning

References

Section I: Teaching And Research: Coming Into Balance

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty developers have made painstaking progress in achieving a higher status for teaching in academe. Research and publication are revered in this occasionally mad-hatter world.

Section Ii: Teaching: Making It Even Better

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This section progresses from a means for individual faculty members to examine their teaching, to an exploration of effective cooperative methods, to implementation of strategies for monitoring and improving a seminar course. It presents tools for personal development and instructional faculty development.

Section Iii: Faculty Development: Seeing And Envisioning Ourselves

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Practitioners must be aware of the state of the field as well as new visions. These three articles allow us to see who we are and to peek at who we may become.

Section Iv: Faculty Development: Modeling Effective Practice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Section IV, a plethora of practical ideas, is exceedingly valuable to developers; concrete models, innovative practices, and provocative case studies can be adapted to your own campuses.

Section V: Diversity: Addressing The " ... Isms" Of The '90s

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

From the top floor to the basement, the institution is buzzing with conversations concerning the multifarious needs of our diverse student population. Let us begin this decade by confronting areas where concentrated attention is immediately necessary: racism, ageism, sexism. The need for faculty and students alike to increase their awareness of and sensitivity to cultural differences is obvious.

Section Vi: Faculty: Looking At The Spectrum

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

When does the professor's career begin? What kind of preparation for the profession is needed? How do we feel as senior faculty? What can be done to solve the upcoming teacher shortage? Aren't there creative ways to retain some of our most talented faculty? These are a few of the issues addressed here.

State-Wide Faculty Development Conference Promotes Vitality, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Katherine H. Price

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Need Addressed

Goals of the Conference

Ten Tips for State-wide Network Planners

1. Establish a State-wide Core Committee

2. Determine a Base of Coordination and Planning

3. Create Collaborative Systems of Support

4. Establish Faculty and Administrative Ownership

5. Pay Attention to Details of Conference Planning

6. Emphasize Local Versus Outside Expertise

7. Offer a Range of Learning Experiences

8. Schedule Time for Informal Contacts

9. Ask Participants to Evaluate the Conference

10. Set Out Plans for Follow-up Efforts

Directions for the Future

References

Appendix A

Department Heads As Faculty Developers: Six Case Studies, Myra S. Wilhite

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Participants

Results

Preliminary Information about Chairpersons

Behaviors Used for Faculty Development

Summary

Limitations of the Study

Recommendations

Bibliography

Index Board Minutes 1981-1990, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Academic Structure
• Affirmative Action
• Agreements
• Apartment Rental Rates
• Athletics
• Awards
• Banking
• Board Officers
• Budget
• Commendations
• Constitutions
• Construction
• Continuing Education
• Contract Ratification
• Divestiture
• Evaluation of President
• Executive Session
• External Auditor
• Facilities Naming
• Faculty
• Fees
• Financial
• General Board Actions
• Honorary Degrees
• Liquor License
• Litigation
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Meeting Dates
• Mich Assoc of Govern Boards
• Policies
• President
• Proclamations
• Property
• Proposals
• Public Comments
• Reports
• Resolutions
• Room & Board Rates
• Special Meetings
• Staff
• Staffing Level
• Student Government
• Trustee By Laws
• Trustee Comments
• Tuition Rates
• Vehicle Rates

Application Of Zero-Base Budgeting In The Learning Resource Center, Javad Raiesdana

Masters Theses

Budgeting is a statement of the organizational goals and objectives in monetary terms. Traditionally, budgets have been developed by adding to the previous year's budget as a base (at least in theory), but rather to start from a zero base and requires a justification of all expenditures. This method of budgeting assumes that each years's budget requests are built up from zero in response to the priorities and needs of that year.

The range of opinion about zero-base budgeting is broad. Some critics regard it to be of great value while others feel that it is inadequate. The purpose of …

Case Studies On Teaching, Theodore J. Kowalski, Roy A. Weaver, Kenneth T. Henson

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Case Studies on Teaching is a unique book designed to infuse reality into the process of preparing teachers. The contents are based on real issues and needs faced by new teachers at they commence their professional careers in elementary and secondary school classrooms. The thirty-six cases offer myriad opportunities for utilizing the case method of instruction. This method has received acclaim in law, medicine, and business curricula. Regardless of the professional context, case studies create interactions that mandate active learning.

Evaluating Honors Programs: An Outcomes Approach, Jacqueline Reihman, Sara Varhus, William R. Whipple

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The evaluation of academic programs has always been a complex and sensitive issue. Evaluations are undertaken to determine which programs will survive in an era of straitened economic circumstances, to gain or maintain accreditation, or to tell us how our programs can be improved. They may apply some normative standard of quality, 0r address an academic program's unique situation and mission. They may include the following: review of budget, evaluation of staff, description of the program's operation, demonstration of faculty and student satisfaction, or measures of what students have learned. They may use standardized or locally developed tests of achievement; …

Undergraduate Catalog (1990-1991), University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Undergraduate Catalogs

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is a comprehensive, four-year, public university located in the heart of Nebraska's largest city. It is the second largest higher education campus in the state. The University of Nebraska at Omaha is part of the University of Nebraska System, which also includes the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Membership Of The Faculty Senate, 1990-1991, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Membership Lists

No abstract provided.

20240829: Intercultural Affairs, 1972-1989, Intercultural Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Intercultural Affairs at Marshall University from 1972-1989. Items were received prior to 1990 but were not accessioned until 2024. Items in this collection include the newsletter published by students at Marshall titled Minority Expressions. Other materials include programs from the "Minority Students Program" (its name at the time) about Black Awareness Week, Black History Month, and other newsletters such as BI-Ways. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

0517: A. Mervin Tyson, 1959-1989, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Marshall University administrator and professor of English. Papers include Phi Beta Kappa and Kiwanis Club material as well as speeches and drafts of the 1986 Marshall University Institutional Self-Study.