To Improve the Academy

<p>An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), <i>To Improve the Academy</i> offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.</p> <p>Contents include:</p> <ul> <li>Professional development for geographically dispersed faculty</li> <li>Implementing a learning consortium for communication and change</li> <li>Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment</li> <li>What educational developers need to know about faculty-artists</li> <li>Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty</li> <li>Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers</li> <li>Mentoring in higher education</li> <li>Tough-love consulting in order to effect change</li> <li>Research on the impact of educational development</li> <li>Examining effective faculty practice</li> <li>Insights on millennial students</li> <li>Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers</li> <li>Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation terminology</li> <li>Questions about student ratings</li> <li>Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online instruction</li> <li>Supporting international faculty</li> <li>Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and learning</li> <li>Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial inclusion</li> <li>The truth about students’ capacity for multitasking</li> <li>Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter backchannel</li> <li>Designing active learning with flexible technology</li> </ul>