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Faculty Development Programs: A Perspective, Sandra Hellyer, Erwin Boschmann Jan 1993

Faculty Development Programs: A Perspective, Sandra Hellyer, Erwin Boschmann

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article describes a study which reviewed information on faculty development programs gathered from 94 institutions of higher learning. The authors collected information to identify common practices of faculty development programs. Elements reportedly used most frequently by institutions include workshops, individual consultations, and resource centers. The authors conclude by mentioning some innovative approaches to faculty development, as well as some new initiatives undertaken at their own institution as a result of their findings.

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Better Teaching Through Better Evaluation: A Guide For Faculty And Institutions, Susan Kahn Jan 1993

Better Teaching Through Better Evaluation: A Guide For Faculty And Institutions, Susan Kahn

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper surveys current literature and thinking on teaching evaluation in higher education. It is intended to help faculty, administrators, departments and institutions think through the main issues that need to be considered in developing a teaching evaluation plan. It is organized around these issues, which include definitions of good teaching, formative and summative evaluation of teaching, sources of evaluation information, use of evaluation to improve teaching, and features of effective evaluation programs. Along with discussion of these issues, it provides examples and models of successful evaluation approaches and includes a list of suggested readings for readers interested in learning …

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The Teaching Consultants' Workshop, Michael A. Kerwin, Judith Rhoads Jan 1993

The Teaching Consultants' Workshop, Michael A. Kerwin, Judith Rhoads

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper describes the Teaching Consultants' Workshop offered in the Teaching Consultation Program in the University of Kentucky Community College System. Faculty members from different campuses, who have been recognized by their colleagues as outstanding teachers and who have attended a training workshop, serve as consultants. The consultants attend the workshop after completing the information collection phase in work with individual clients. Consultants present their clients to each other through collected data and videotape, and discuss alternative teaching strategies that might be used in each case.

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Challenges For Faculty Developers And Department Chairs: When Faculty Arrive From Professional Settings, Eric W. Kristensen, David R. Moulton Jan 1993

Challenges For Faculty Developers And Department Chairs: When Faculty Arrive From Professional Settings, Eric W. Kristensen, David R. Moulton

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper discusses problems encountered by new faculty coming from professional backgrounds to teach in subjects areas that have no academic traditions. Using the case of Bill, the paper describes difficulties these faculty members encounter and intervention techniques appropriate to them. Finally, the paper discusses how these problems are related to similar problems faced by all faculty.

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A "Community Of Scholars?": Conversations Among Mid-Career Faculty At A Public Research University, Julia Lamber, Tony Ardizzone, Terry Dworkin, Sam Guskin, Deborah Olsen, Phil Parnell, David Thelen Jan 1993

A "Community Of Scholars?": Conversations Among Mid-Career Faculty At A Public Research University, Julia Lamber, Tony Ardizzone, Terry Dworkin, Sam Guskin, Deborah Olsen, Phil Parnell, David Thelen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article reports on a study of issues of faculty isolation and morale in mid-career faculty. Interview questions probed the dynamics of individual careers and asked about the quality of work life in the department and university, and changes in work life over the course of careers. Findings suggest that a majority of faculty, regardless of professional interests or scholarly prestige, would like greater interaction with departmental colleagues, more recognition from their department and university, a reward system based less on outside offers, and more fluid communications with upper-level administrators. Faculty comments clearly illustrate the advantages of an academic career: …

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Beyond Groups And Cooperation: Building High Performance Learning Teams, Larry K. Michaelsen, Cynthia Firestone Jones, Warren E. Watson Jan 1993

Beyond Groups And Cooperation: Building High Performance Learning Teams, Larry K. Michaelsen, Cynthia Firestone Jones, Warren E. Watson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article examines potential parallels between using teams in the workplace and in the classroom and is based on the assumption that educators may be able to learn a great deal from industry's successes using high-performing teams. This article (1) outlines the key attributes of groups affecting their ability to engage in productive work, (2) identifies management practices that have consistently resulted in high performance teams in the workplace, (3) compares these practices with the prescriptions of three widely used but different instructional approaches to group-based learning: incorporating a group assignment as a supplement to a predominantly lecture-based course, Cooperative …

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Creating A "Tqm" Classroom Through Cooperative Learning, Barbara Millis Jan 1993

Creating A "Tqm" Classroom Through Cooperative Learning, Barbara Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Two important trends in higher education-Total Quality Management and Cooperative Learning-happily result in compatible and creative classroom approaches. In fact, much of the TQM theory is predicated on the noncompetitive teamsork that forms the heart of the cooperative learning movement. This paper discusses how instructors using cooperative learning activities simultaneously create a TQM classroom.

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Applying For A Faculty Development Position: What Can Our Colleagues Tell Us?, Erin Porter, Karron Lewis, Eric W. Kristensen, Christine A. Stanley, Carol A. Weiss Jan 1993

Applying For A Faculty Development Position: What Can Our Colleagues Tell Us?, Erin Porter, Karron Lewis, Eric W. Kristensen, Christine A. Stanley, Carol A. Weiss

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty Development is an emerging field for institutions of higher education; therefore, the procedure for recruiting center directors and faculty developers has not been carefully examined or published. Constructing or reviewing resumes, curriculum vitae, or application portfolios is still an uncharted area in our profession. Information about these procedures is currently available only in the experiences of employers and potential employees for positions in faculty development. The objective of this article is to begin the process of accumulating useful criteria for employees and employers to find the right match of needs and qualifications. As a unique field in the academic …

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Section I: Working With Faculty Communities Jan 1993

Section I: Working With Faculty Communities

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This volume of To Improve the Academy begins with essays examining different groups of faculty within our institutions. We clustered these together because each spotlights a special group of faculty. One danger in institutions of higher learning is that the term "community" may be misused. It could be restricted to an academic department that must get along by reason of budgets, proximity of offices, or shared parking lots. Or the term could be a convenient designation for a group of people sharing a category-such as the "research faculty." Or it could be used to disguise problems within or between campus …

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Section Ii: Practicing Inclusive Behavior Jan 1993

Section Ii: Practicing Inclusive Behavior

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The editors have chosen to offer the two essays in this section by themselves because we want to underline the importance of a vital task calling us as change agents and community builders. 0. Scott Peck (1987) in The Different Drum writes that the "great enemy of community is exclusivity" (p. 61). We can point to egregious examples of exclusion in our society; but can we clearly see how we ourselves practice exclusivity, even with the best of intentions? If we do recognize the problem, how can we not only change our own behaviors but also promote inclusion across our …

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Section Iii: Teachers And Students In The Classroom Jan 1993

Section Iii: Teachers And Students In The Classroom

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The first category of faculty development in the POD publication, "An Informational Brochure about Faculty, Instructional and Organization Development," is "the faculty member as teacher." To Improve the Academy is one place where faculty developers and teachers can turn to find out what is happening in the realm of teaching and learning.

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Section Iv: Addressing Change In Programs Of Faculty Development Jan 1993

Section Iv: Addressing Change In Programs Of Faculty Development

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In recent years, the membership of POD has grown considerably, and each year new programs on campuses are newly established or renewed. This section is devoted to descriptions of a variety of campus-based programs making using of a variety of strategies promoting improvement in the climate for scholarship and learning on our campuses.

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Section V: The Roles Faculty Developers Play Jan 1993

Section V: The Roles Faculty Developers Play

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This last section combines perspectives of both organizational development and personal development. Those of us who have been in faculty development a long time remember when we were defining the role faculty developers "should" play on our campuses. At the same time the subject of the "career" of a faculty developer was also discussed, often with some puzzling overtones. The passage of time has helped faculty development clarify both the role-or many roles-faculty developers play and the career paths each might follow.

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Teaching The Technology Of Teaching: A Faculty Development Program For New Faculty, Ray Shackelford Jan 1993

Teaching The Technology Of Teaching: A Faculty Development Program For New Faculty, Ray Shackelford

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The primary function of institutions of higher education is to facilitate learning. New faculty are hired yearly with the expectation that they will match student needs with effective learning experiences. But many incoming faculty, although knowledgeable in their fields, enter higher education with limited preparation or experience in teaching. This can reduce the effectiveness of the teaching/learning process. The question is: "How can faculty with limited teaching experience be helped to strengthen their teaching effectiveness?" To examine this question, this article will describe the development, implementation, and qualitative and quantitative assessment of an innovative faculty development program entitled "Teaching the …

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Helping Faculty Integrate Technology In Research And Teaching: Cart At Bridgewater State College, Terry Anne Vigil, Gail Price, Uma Shama, Karen Stonely Jan 1993

Helping Faculty Integrate Technology In Research And Teaching: Cart At Bridgewater State College, Terry Anne Vigil, Gail Price, Uma Shama, Karen Stonely

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article describes Bridgewater State College's Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching (CART). CART's role is to prepare all faculty and librarians to take advantage of the opportunities that the new Center for Tecyhnological Applications will make available for the teaching and learning process, not only for students but for faculty. The challenge for CART is to integrate traditional faculty development with technological training as one more tool for the practitioner to enhance teaching and learning. Bridgewater's program has successfully attracted faculty to educational technology, encouraged teaching and research projects through a summer small grants program, and built …

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Taking The Lead: Faculty Development As Institutional Change Agent, Kenneth J. Zahorski Jan 1993

Taking The Lead: Faculty Development As Institutional Change Agent, Kenneth J. Zahorski

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article looks at the nature, role, and functions of faculty development from a particular philosophical perspective, exploring ways in which faculty development professionals might step beyond their traditional institutional role as facilitators to become even more powerful change agents. More specifically, the author (1) identifies areas where change agent strategies may be used, (2) provides some concrete examples of faculty development serving as an effective institutional change agent, and (3) identifies the conditions needed for faculty developers to become successful change agents.

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From Faculty Developer To Faculty Development Director: Shifting Perspectives And Strategies, Marie A. Wunsch Jan 1993

From Faculty Developer To Faculty Development Director: Shifting Perspectives And Strategies, Marie A. Wunsch

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Very often faculty development staff, instructional development specialists, or faculty members on development committees are called upon to assume administrative duties as the director of a faculty development program or office. This article suggests strategies for addressing the perspectives and skills that successful faculty developers have that can be adapted, shifted, and enlarged to serve them well in a new role.

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1993-1995 Otterbein College Bulletin, Otterbein University Jan 1993

1993-1995 Otterbein College Bulletin, Otterbein University

Course Catalogs

Volume 85

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Prospective Impact Of Responsibility Center Budgeting On Communication And Theatre Programs: View From A State Supported University, Robert C. Dick Jan 1993

Prospective Impact Of Responsibility Center Budgeting On Communication And Theatre Programs: View From A State Supported University, Robert C. Dick

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines the impact of responsibility center budgeting (RCB) on communication and theatre programs in a state supported university. While some operational differences exist, it generally can be said that, in RCB, part or all tuition and sponsored research revenues are returned to a unit in direct proportion to what is earned. The unit controls its own pricing policy and is responsible for payment of all, or nearly all, of its costs. Surpluses remain with the unit; deficits must be made up by the unit in succeeding periods. The incentive to efficient production of what the market demands is …

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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Cultural Learning Through Cable Television, John F. Dillon, Sheila C. Crifasi Jan 1993

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach To Cultural Learning Through Cable Television, John F. Dillon, Sheila C. Crifasi

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article examines a multi-disciplinary approach to cultural learning through cable television. In the U.S., television current affairs programming is now being used in place of conventional textbooks in those subject areas dealing with rapidly unfolding world developments, such as history and political science. While it may take years to revise a traditional textbook, college educators are relying on the quickness of television--as well as print mass media--to help their students comprehend dynamic global events. In 1989, recognizing their own potential as an educational resource, major cable companies and programmers created Cable in the Classroom to help K-to-12th grade educators …

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A Survey Of Communication Department Curriculum In Four-Year Colleges And Universities, June H. Smith, Patricia H. Turner Jan 1993

A Survey Of Communication Department Curriculum In Four-Year Colleges And Universities, June H. Smith, Patricia H. Turner

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article presents a survey of communication department curriculum in four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. Excellent communication skills are tantamount to success in education. A review of current education journals reveals the variety of communication skills needed by professional educators, including interpersonal communication, small group meetings, interviewing, basic communication theory, research methodology, teaching methods in speech communication, public speaking, performance of literature, media, and a teaching internship. Social science literature reveals several communication needs for social science practitioners, including anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, lawyers, journalists, advertising practitioners, political scientists, human relations practitioners, and mass media personnel. Those communication …

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After Hazelwood: Free Speech Constraints And Theatre Programs, Bob Frank Jan 1993

After Hazelwood: Free Speech Constraints And Theatre Programs, Bob Frank

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article addresses the question of what constitutional constraints govern the lives of academic theatre teacher/directors in the U.S. by highlight the case of the Southwest Missouri State University's theatre program. Although theatre artists and teachers seldom settle their controversies in the courts, the courts have established a body of judicial doctrine that is relevant to the administrator of academic theatre. Questions such as what should drama teachers, directors and administrators know about the legal limits of their freedom of expression? Conversely, what are the limitations imposed by the courts on administrative officials regarding their ability to control or regulate …

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Teach Them Something They Can Use, Pamela H. Sellers Jan 1993

Teach Them Something They Can Use, Pamela H. Sellers

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the necessary education, skill and preparations a prospective law student should acquire. It is well established that the legal education focuses more on mastery of a method of thinking than on mastery of the subject matter. The substantive law is a twisting, turning, mutating thing whose interpretation and application may be subject to the whims, prejudices, or perversities of judges and juries. It cannot be fully known. The best that a good lawyer can do is to anticipate these whims, prejudices, and perversities and attempt to neutralize or counter whichever interpretations of the law may be adverse …

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Unlocking Creativity In Actors: Inhibiting Factors, Brant L. Pope Jan 1993

Unlocking Creativity In Actors: Inhibiting Factors, Brant L. Pope

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article attempts to examine the nature of imagination and creativity in the acting process. It argues that successful acting is the ability to extend the imagination into the creative act of developing a role and building a character. Of particular concern will be the identification of significant personal, social and professional factors that tend to inhibit the creative process. It will close with some observations about the work of Jose Quintero of the Asolo Conservatory, in terms of the specific ways in which he inspires creativity in our actors. It is important to differentiate imagination and creativity. Imagination is …

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Commentary: Thoughts For New Chairs Of A Department Of Theatre, Robert Chapel Jan 1993

Commentary: Thoughts For New Chairs Of A Department Of Theatre, Robert Chapel

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the author's ideas about creating theatre department chairs in colleges and universities in the U.S. Specific challenges that will be faced after assuming a new position of chair; Expectations to be met for needed changes in the department; Experience of the author who joined a department three years previous and was given a mandate from the dean and the department's faculty to revive a department which had lost its luster; Common problems which occur in cycles throughout academe and which can be rectified with the infusion of new blood in the form of a new chair every …

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Reading & Writing Across The High School Science & Math Curriculum, Joan Mento Jan 1993

Reading & Writing Across The High School Science & Math Curriculum, Joan Mento

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Book review of "Reading and Writing Across the High School Science and Math Curriculum," by R. Sensenbaugh. Bloomington, ID: EDINFO Press.

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Celebrate Literacy! The Joy Of Reading & Writing, Joan Mento Jan 1993

Celebrate Literacy! The Joy Of Reading & Writing, Joan Mento

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Book review of "Celebrate Literacy! The Joy of Reading and Writing," by J. Johns. Bloomington, ID: EDINEO Press.

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Scholarship Reconsidered: Role Definition And Its Impact On The Faculty, Gary T. Hunt Jan 1993

Scholarship Reconsidered: Role Definition And Its Impact On The Faculty, Gary T. Hunt

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article addresses issues concerning the role of faculty members in U.S. universities and colleges. With external pressures coming from state legislators and accrediting bodies, all of which are aimed at the role of the individual faculty member, many both on the inside and the outside of the university are expressing opinions about the work life of the faculty member. In fact, one might even be so bold as to suggest that everything we have traditionally accepted about scholarship is now up for grabs. This unstable environment has heaped added pressure upon the individual faculty member, who may well be …

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Departmental Textbook Publishing For The Introductory Communication Course: Pedagogical Boon Or Exploitation?, Craig Newburger, Robert Smith, Linda Pledger Jan 1993

Departmental Textbook Publishing For The Introductory Communication Course: Pedagogical Boon Or Exploitation?, Craig Newburger, Robert Smith, Linda Pledger

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article details the benefits and liabilities associated with departmental introductory communication course (ICC) textbook publishing as they are related to both the national publishing house and local commercial printer options. A number of national textbook publishers are actively involved in the production and marketing of locally authored campus-specific ICC texts and related workbooks. Such publishers offer national exposure through their textbook marketing programs and, correspondingly, absorb publicity and other-campus marketing costs. Meanwhile, a departmental desktop publishing software can be used to write, edit, design and present a camera-ready ICC text manuscript to a local commercial printer. The use of …

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Scholarship Reconsidered: A Reflection, Ronald L. Applbaum Jan 1993

Scholarship Reconsidered: A Reflection, Ronald L. Applbaum

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article reflects on the book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, by Ernest Boyer. Scholarship Reconsidered was an attempt by Boyer to redefine the role of the professoriate in terms of the concept of scholarship as perceived and enacted within the academy. The purpose of the special report was to provide a clearer meaning of scholarship within the academy itself. He recognized that the mission of U.S. higher education had changed dramatically over the past four decades. And, yet, the expectations of the professoriate held by the members within the academy, that is, faculty and administrators, had not always …

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