Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Online ISSN: 2334-4822
License: CC BY-NC-ND
2023
Developing Critical Literacy: An Urgent Goal, Victoria Appatova and Alice Horning
Infusion Rather than Isolation: Integrating Principles of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization, and Indigenization in Toolkits for Remote Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Robin Attas, Lauren Anstey, Lindsey Brant, and Karalyn McRae
A Collaborative Model for Faculty Development: Helping Faculty Develop Inclusive Teaching Practices, Christina Bifulco and Christopher Drue
A Mixed Methods Study of Faculty Experiences in a Course Design Institute, Carie N. Cardamone and Heather Dwyer
Exploring the Impact of Student-Faculty Partnership Program at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Alyssa Guadalupe Cavazos, Lesley Chapa, and Javier Cavazos-Vela
Managing Programmatic Trade-offs for Centers of Teaching and Learning: Applying a Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning Approach to Pedagogical Offerings, Christopher Vicente Hsin-Hung S. Chen, Ian G. Althouse, Caitlin P. DeClercq, and Mark L. Phillipson
Meanings of Community: Educational Developers Experience Care, Satisfying Contributions, and Belonging in a Collaboration across Institutions, Thomas M. Colclough, William J. Howitz, Daniel Mann, Katherine Kearns, and Darren S. Hoffmann
Evidencing the Value of Educational Development: Charting a Course on the Waves and Winds of Change, Jovan Groen, Carolyn Hoessler, Carolyn Ives, Veronica Bamber, Corinne Laverty, and Klodiana Kolomitro
Purpose, Place, and People: How the Pandemic Helped Foster Open and Inclusive Course Design, Benjamin K. Haywood, Diane E. Boyd, and John A. McArthur
Managing for Agility in Constant Change: HR Strategies for Teaching Center Leaders, Carolyn Hoessler, Donna E. Ellis, and Bob Bayles
Designing Programs to Prepare Future Faculty for Academic Careers: Insights from a Longitudinal Case Study of a Multidisciplinary Cohort-based Program Model for Doctoral Students, Laura A. Lukes, Lamis M. Ibrahim, and Laurence Bray
An Exploration of Trauma-inclusive Pedagogy and Students’ Perceptions of Academic Success, R. Jason Lynch and Krista Wojdak
Correction Notice for "Practical Guidelines for Development of a University-wide Faculty Mentorship Program Using a Multimodal Mentoring Network Model" by Matthew G. Schwartz (To Improve the Academy, 2023, Vol. 42, No. 1), Michael S. Palmer and Lindsay Wheeler
Impacts of Campus Disruption on Educational Developers’ Role-identity and Teamwork, William V. Pilny, Benjamin Brock, and Stephanie Laggini Fiore
Practical Guidelines for Development of a University-wide Faculty Mentorship Program Using a Multimodal Mentoring Network Model, Matthew G. Schwartz
The Value of Process in Racial Equity Work: Reflections from a Faculty Learning Community, Emily R. Shamash, Julie Berrett-Abebe, LaTasha Smith, Stephanie Storms, Michael Regan, Jocelyn Novella, Laurie L. Grupp, Emily Smith, and Alyson Martin
Facing Wicked Problems during a Pandemic and Beyond: A Case Study in Using Design Thinking for CTL Development and Growth, Jenna Pack Sheffield and Devon Moore
Cultivating Capacity with a Mentoring Guild: Constellations Continued, Tracy W. Smith, Jennifer R. Luetkemeyer, Rachel Wilson, Aftynne E. Cheek, and Denise Brewer
Designing for Impact: The Center for Teaching and Learning as a Cultivator of a Faculty Learner-Leader Praxis, Monica Stitt-Bergh, Debra Fowler, Jonan Phillip Donaldson, Ra'sheedah Richardson, Truth Hunter, and Clinton A. Patterson
Learning Communities Promote Pedagogical Metacognition in Higher Education Faculty, Audrey J. Tocco, Lauren A. Mehrhoff, Haley M. Osborn, Lyda F. McCartin, and Molly M. Jameson
Writing Communities to (Re-)engage Faculty: The U See I Write Initiative, Ilona S. Yim, Nina Bandelj, Olga V. Razorenova, and Peiyi Wang
2022
Coda: A Wicked Problems Mindset for Educational Development, Randall Bass
Professionalization and the Forgotten System: Observed Practices and Perceptions at the Intersection of Informal and Formal Faculty Development, Janie Brennan, Todd Fernandez, and Joe Tranquillo
Reflections on Pedagogical Practice and Development through Multidisciplinary Triadic Peer Mentorship, Nicole Charles, Nathalie Moon, and Andrew P. Dicks
Caring for Our Communities of Practice in Educational Development, Christopher V. H.-H. Chen, Katherine Kearns, Lynn Eaton, Darren S. Hoffmann, Denise Leonard, and Martin Samuels
Fellow Travelers: Taking Stock of Faculty Fellows Programs in the Age of Organizational Development, Susan A. Colby, Laura Cruz, Danielle Cordaro, and Clare Cruz
Wicked²: The Increasing Wickedness of Educational Developers as DEI Cultural Influencers, Lauri Dietz, China M. Jenkins, Laura Cruz, Amber Handy, Rita Kumar, Rita Kumar, Julia metzger, and Ian Norris
Building Resilience in CTLs: Reflections on Practice, Lisa J. Hatfield, Julie Maxson, Jennifer Marshall Shinaberger, Hanna E. Norton, Cynthia (Cia) H. DeMartino, Annette Finley-Crosswhite, and Gigi Gokcek
Data-driven Iterative Refinements to Educational Development Services: Directly Measuring the Impacts of Consultations on Course and Syllabus Design, Chad Hershock, Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Jessica Harrell, Sophie le Blanc, Marisella Rodriguez, Jacqueline Stimson, Katherine Phelps Walsh, and Emily Daniels Weiss
Contexts for Agency: A Framework for Managing Educational Development Work, Kathleen Landy, Anna L. Bostwick Flaming, Suzanne Tapp, and Eric C. Kaldor
Beyond Backward Design, or, By the End of This Article, You Should Be Able to Imagine Some Alternatives to Learning Objectives, Michael McCreary
A Case Study in Teaching Inclusive Teaching, Zitsi Mirakhur, Christopher Chen, and Sarah Schwarz
MegaSoTL: Supporting Pedagogical Research across Multiple Institutions, Sara Nasrollahian Mojarad and Laura Cruz
Transforming Departmental Culture: Empowering a Department through Appreciative Inquiry, Symphony D. Oxendine, Kerry K. Robinson, and Michele A. Parker
Centering Black Women Faculty: Magnifying Powerful Voices, Christen Priddie, Dajanae Palmer, Samantha Silberstein, and Allison BrckaLorenz
Taking Teaching and Learning Seriously: Approaching Wicked Consciousness through Collaboration and Partnership, Adam H. Smith, Laurie L. Grupp, Lindsay Doukopoulos, John C. Foo, Barbara J. Rodriguez, Janel Seeley, Linda M. Boland, and Laurel L. Hester
How Search Committees Assess Teaching: Lessons for CTLs, Katharine Phelps Walsh, Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Deborah Meizlish, and Chad Hershock
Toward Institutionalizing Successful Innovations in the Academy, Sarah B. Wise, Courtney Ngai, Joel Christopher Corbo, Mark A. Gammon, Jaclyn K. Rivard, and Clara E. Smith
2021
What Really Matters for Instructors Implementing Equitable and Inclusive Teaching Approaches, Tracie Marcella Addy, Philip M. Reeves, Derek Dube, and Khadijah A. Mitchell
Supporting Faculty as Writers and Teachers: An Integrative Approach to Educational Development, Jennifer Ahern-Dodson and Monique Dufour
Preparing the Next Generation of Institutional Leaders: Strategic Supports for Mid-Career Faculty, Vicki Baker and Caroline Manning
Implementation Plans for Course Redesigns: An Exploration of Identified Strategies, Rebecca Campbell and Benjamin Blankenship
How a Small Teaching Center Made a Big Impact During the Pandemic Crises, J. A. Carter, Bradford Mallory, Brenda Refaei, and Ruth Benander
Where Are the Students in Efforts for Inclusive Excellence? Two Approaches to Positioning Students as Critical Partners for Inclusive Pedagogical Practices, Alison Cook-Sather, Tracie Marcella Addy, Anna DeVault, and Nicole Livitskiy
Leveraging Collaboration and Peer Support to Initiate and Sustain a Faculty Development Program, Anneris Coria-Navia and Scott Moncrieff
Place-based Educational Development: What Center for Teaching and Learning Spaces Look Like (and Why That Matters), Laura Cruz, Karen Huxtable-Jester, Brian Smentkowski, and Martin Springborg
In Search of Silver Linings: Strategies for Preparing Future Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tazin Daniels, Elizabeth Bailey, and Anoff Nicholas Cobblah
How a Flexible Teaching “Camp” Answered Our Pandemic Teaching Emergency, Patricia Dineen
Motivation to “Keep Pushin’”: Insights into Faculty Development Facilitating Inclusive Pedagogy, Kelly Erby, Melanie Burdick, Sandra Winn Tutwiler, and Dan Petersen
Transcending Adversity: Trauma-Informed Educational Development, Mays Imad
Growing Pains (and Opportunities): Launching a Center for Teaching and Learning During a Global Pandemic, Johanna Inman
Holding Tight to Our Convictions and Lightly to Our Ways: Inviting Shared Expertise as a Strategy for Expanding Inclusion, Reach, and Impact, Kylie Korsnack and Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens
Finding Our Voice: Highly Flexible ED for the HyFlex World, Kristine Larsen, Cristina Robinson, Jason A. Melnyk, Jennifer Nicoletti, Amy Gagnon, Kelly McLaughlin, and Mina Hussaini
Fractal Reflection: Cultivating Community and Meaning in Times of Crises, Deandra Little, Joshua Caulkins, Eric C. Kaldor, and Lindsay Wheeler
Rebuilding a Teaching Conference in a Pandemic: User-Centered Guiding Principles and Lessons Learned, Laura A. Lukes and E. Shelley Reid
Beyond Instructional Development: An Exploration of Using Formal Pedagogy Training to Benefit Perceived Quality of Life and Sense of Community in Graduate Students, Matthew Mahavongtrakul, Ashley Hooper, Daniel Mann, and Brian Sato
An Efficient and Coherent Pipeline for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Educational Development, Daniel Mann, Matthew Mahavongtrakul, and Ashley Hooper
Longitudinal Impact of Faculty Participation in a Course Design Institute (CDI): Faculty Motivation and Perception of Expectancy, Value, and Cost, Cara Meixner, Melissa Altman, Megan Good, and Elizabeth Ben Ward
Discomfort and Other Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Graduate Student Peer Consultations, Mark W. Pleiss and Krisztina Erzsebet Dearborn
Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements, Daniel L. Reinholz, Mary E. Pilgrim, Amelia Stone-Johnson, Karen Falkenburg, Christopher Geanious, Courtney Ngai, Joel Christopher Corbo, and Sarah B. Wise
Cultivating an Institutional Culture that Values Teaching: Developing a Repository of Effective Practices, Lindsay Shaw, Jill Grose, Erika Kustra, Lori Goff, Donna Ellis, and Paola Borin
What Happens When You Close the Door on Remote Proctoring? Moving Toward Authentic Assessments with a People-Centered Approach, Sarah Silverman, Autumn Caines, Christopher Casey, Belen Garcia de Hurtado, Jessica Riviere, Alfonso Sintjago, and Carla Vecchiola
#iteachmsu: Centering an Educator Learning Community (ELC), Erik Skogsberg, Makena Neal, Melissa McDaniels, Madeline Shellgren, and Patricia Stewart
Constellations of Support: A Community Development Model, Tracy Smith and Melba Spooner
2020
What's the Problem Now?, Randall Bass
Editor's Note, Lindsay Bernhagen
Leveraging the Power of Course Redesign For Student Success, Rebecca Campbell and Benjamin B. Blankenship
A Mandatory Faculty Diversity Workshop: Does It Work?, Heather Dwyer and Joya Smith
Development of a Faculty Appreciation of Pedagogy Scale, Carol A. Hurney, Jordan D. Troisi, and Lori H. Leaman
Motivations and Obstacles Influencing Faculty Engagement in Adopting Teaching Innovations, Wayne Jacobson and Renee Cole
Tell Me More About Alex: Helping Instructors Uncover and Mitigate Their Implicit Biases, Cait S. Kirby and Heather N. Fedesco
Cultivating and Sustaining a Faculty Culture of Data-Driven Teaching and Learning: A Systems Approach, Marsha Lovett and Chad Hershock
Assessment Literacy in College Teaching: Empirical Evidence on the Role and Effectiveness of a Faculty Training Course, Kyle D. Massey, Christopher DeLuca, and Danielle LaPointe-McEwan
(Cultural) Taxation Without Representation? How educational Developer Can Broker Discourse on Black Faculty Lives in the #BlackLivesMatter Era, Richard J. Reddick, Beth E. Bukoski, and Stella L. Smith
The Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members of Color with Racism in the Classroom, Ryan Rideau and Claire K. Robbins
Impostor Phenomenon in Educational Developers: Consequences and Coping Strategies, Kristin J. Rudenga and Emily O. Gravett
“Am I Really Good Enough?”: Black and Latinx Experiences with Faculty Development, Sylk Santiago-Sotto
Students Helping Students Provide Valuable Feedback on Course Evaluations, Adriana Signorini, Mariana Abuan, Gautam Panakkal, and Sandy Dorantes
Building a Social Network around SoTL through Digital Space, Shannon M. Sipes, Samy L. Minix, and Matt Barton
Motivated Reasoning and Persuading Faculty Change in Teaching, Gary A. Smith
The Diffusion of Faculty Development: A Faculty Fellows Program, Tracy W. Smith, Sara J. Greenwald, Lillian Y. Nave, Victor N. Mansure, and Michael L. Howell
Teaching Certificate Redesign: Making a Flexible Program for Future Faculty, Kate Z. Williams, Lauren E. Margulieux, and G. David Lawrence
2019
A Framework for the Strategic Leveraging of Outside Resources to Enhance CTL Effectiveness, Thomas M. Brinthaupt, Laura Cruz, Sheila Otto, and Mike Pinter
The SoTL Scaffold: Supporting Evidence-Based Teaching Practice in Educational Development, Laura Cruz, Kathryn Cunningham, Brian Smentkowski, and Hillary Steiner
The Fearless Teaching Framework: A Model to Synthesize Foundational Education Research for University Instructors, Alice E. Donlan, Sandra M. Loughlin, and Virginia L. Byrne
Finding a Fulcrum: Positioning Ourselves to Leverage Change, Laurie L. Grupp and Deandra Little
Impostor Phenomenon in Educational Developers, Kristin J. Rudenga and Emily O. Gravett
Wiser Together: Sustaining Teaching Excellence with a Self-Study/Critical Friend, Tracy W. Smith and Leslie U. Bradbury
Broaching Threshold Concepts: The Trouble with “Skills” Language in Defining Student Learning Goals, Angela J. Zito
2018
Toward Learning and Justice, Through Love, Isis Artze-Vega
The Idea of Educational Development: An Historical Perspective, Laura Cruz
The Chakra System as a Framework for Holistic Educational Development, Michele DiPietro
Changing the Lens: The Role of Reframing in Educational Development, Donna E. Ellis
Is SoTL a Signature Pedagogy of Educational Development?, Peter Felten and Nancy Chick
Ways of Doing: Feminist Educational Development, Emily O. Gravett and Lindsay Bernhagen
Publish & Flourish: Helping Scholars Become Better, More Prolific Writers, Tara Gray, Laura Madson, and Michelle Jackson
From the Editors: The One Thing: A Pluralistic Approach to Research and Practice, Gary Hawkins and Brian Smentkowski
Equity-Minded Faculty Development, Aeron Haynie
Seeking and Doing Justice Through Educational Development, Wayne Jacobson
Seven Voices, Seven Developers, Seven One Things that Guide Our Practice, Frances Kalu, Patti Dyjur, Carol Berenson, Kimberley A. Grant, Cheryl Jeffs, Natasha Kenny, and Robin Mueller