To Improve the Academy Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

An annual publication of the Professional and OrganizationalDevelopment Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve theAcademy offers a resource for improvement in higher educationto faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs,faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers,and educational consultants. Contents include: Professional development for geographically dispersedfaculty Implementing a learning consortium for communication andchange Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment What educational developers need to know aboutfaculty-artists Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers Mentoring in higher education Tough-love consulting in order to effect change Research on the impact of educational development Examining effective faculty practice Insights on millennial students Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluationterminology Questions about student ratings Small-group individual diagnosis to improve onlineinstruction Supporting international faculty Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, andlearning Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racialinclusion The truth about students' capacity for multitasking Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitterbackchannel Designing active learning with flexible technology