Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2001

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2001) 19; http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/tia.17063888.0019.018

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

This essay describes the evolution of a program for the development of new faculty at a public teaching university. The year-long process of orienting the newest professors to the campus and assisting them with their scholarship and teaching results in additional (albeit unplanned and unexpected) benefits, such as professional renewal of senior faculty who serve as advisors and enhanced functioning of the university itself. Vital to the program’s success is the productive involvement of key campus constituencies and responsiveness to feedback.

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