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Scholarship July 3, 2025

To Improve the Academy, vol 19

The Wabash Center

Author
Lieberman, Devorah and Catherine Wehlburg
Publisher
To Improve the Academy 19 (Professional and Organizational Development Network, New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK 2001)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Ethical Guidelines for Educational Developers

Section I: Focus on Trends in Faculty Development
ch. 1 Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Communities of Practice
ch. 2 Transitions and Transformations: The Making of Department Chairs
ch. 3 Education For Responsible Citizenship: A Challenge For Faculty Developers
ch. 4 A Prophet in Your Own Land? Using Faculty and Student Focus Groups to Address Issues of Race, Ethicity, and Gender in the Classroom
ch. 5 Faculty Learning Communities: Change Agents for Transforming Institutions into Learning Organizations

Section II: Focus on Faculty Development and Student Learning
ch. 6 Doing Faculty Development as if We Value Learning Most: Transformative Guidelines From Research to Practice
ch. 7 Higher-Level Learning: The First Step Toward More Significant Learning
ch. 8 Clarity in Teaching Higher Education: Dimensions and Classroom Strategies
ch. 9 Preparing Today's Faculty For Tomorrow's Students: One College's Faculty Development Solution
ch. 10 After Twelve Years of Teaching the College-Teaching Course
ch. 11 Faculty Development that Transforms the Undergraduate Experience at a Research University
ch. 12 The Case for Sophisticated Course Syllabi
ch. 13 The Role of a Teaching Center in Curricular Reform
ch. 14 Technology and the Culture of Teaching and Learning

Section III: Focus on Faculty Development and Professional Support
ch. 15 Developing New Faculty: An Evolving Program
ch. 16 Publish, Don't Perish: A Program to Help Scholars Flourish
ch. 17 Designing Teaching Portfolios Based on a Formal Model of the Scholarship of Teaching
ch. 18 Strengthening Collegiality to Enhance Teaching, Research, and Scholarly Practice: An Untapped Research for Faculty Development
ch. 19 Faculty Quality of Life
ch. 20 Getting Administrative Support for Your Project

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