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Professional Growth through Faculty Learning Communities: Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Vehicles for Faculty Development and Student Success

This article highlights how academic leaders may inspire faculty professional growth, student success, and enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) opportunities through a broad operating framework for faculty learning communities

David P. Pursell, Judy Awong-Taylor, Clay Runck, Allison R. D'Costa, Tirza Leader, Chantelle Anfuso, Cindy Achat-Mendes, and Nathan Moon June 6, 2022

The Care and Feeding of Mid-Career Faculty: Professional Development across the Career Life Cycle

To build and sustain faculty vitality, engagement, and professional currency, academic leaders must find ways to acknowledge, encourage, and support faculty at all stages of the career life cycle. There

Lynne A. Texter and Jenepher Lennox Terrion May 2, 2022

Faculty Mentoring: Using a Faculty-Led Peer Review Process to Improve Performance

This article describes a faculty-led peer review of teaching (PROT) program at Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing (BSMCON). This program is proven to be an effective formative tool for

Christine Turner April 4, 2022

Building a Comprehensive Faculty Mentoring Program: A Case Study

Our efforts to mentor tenure-track faculty began in conversations about faculty success on campus. In 2018, Ollie Dreon was serving in his fifth year as the director of the Center

Oliver Dreon and Leslie Gates March 1, 2022

Addressing Burnout Takes More Than Faculty Development

The past two years have been traumatic due to COVID, social unrest, and widespread uncertainty, and 2022 is shaping up to be not much different. The overwhelming pressure caused by

Rebecca Pope-Ruark February 14, 2022

Respecting Generalist Faculty: Helping Teaching Faculty Support Our Students

Unless you are at an elite institution in a highly specialized department that has no general education or service course teaching responsibilities, you need generalist faculty. Most academic departments at

Thomas M. O’Shea and Constance C. Relihan February 1, 2022

Six Strategies to Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Professional Development

In recent years, critics have pointed out the poor working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF), but less attention has been paid to the lack of investment in them as teachers

K. C. Culver and Adrianna Kezar January 3, 2022

Faculty Development: A Resource Guide

Academic Leader has published voluminously on faculty development issues in higher education. Below is a collection of articles, divided by topic, on how you can support the professional development of

Academic Leader January 1, 2022

Improving Support for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Academic administrators are well aware that the faculty has changed dramatically, with 70 percent of the faculty now off the tenure track (52 percent part-time and 18 percent full-time, non–tenure

Jordan Harper and Adrianna Kezar December 6, 2021

Adaptive Learning for Faculty Development: Technology Considerations

One challenge of faculty development and training for online teaching is satisfying instructors with different levels of knowledge, skills, and experience. At our institution, we discovered that this challenge can

Corrinne Stull, Jackie Compton, and Anchalee Ngampornchai November 15, 2021

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