Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2002

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2002) 20; doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0020.007

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

As a result of an academic senate decision to reconceptualize the baccalaureate, the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico began, in late 1994, a major transformational process that has led it to rethink itself as a community of learners. One of the principal instruments of change has been our Center for Academic Excellence, created in early 1998 as a result of the transformational process. This chapter discusses the process that led to the creation of the center, as well as its structure, activities, and vision for the future. We hope that our experience will be useful to those institutions thinking about venturing into the area of faculty development.

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