To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (TIA) is the flagship peer-reviewed publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD Network). TIA, an open-access, electronic journal, is focused on faculty, graduate student and professional student, instructional, professional, and organizational development. TIA publishes two issues annually, with occasional special issues responsive to the profession and moment.

Online ISSN: 2334-4822

License: CC BY-NC-ND

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2018

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“Once a Scientist…”: Disciplinary Approaches and Intellectual Dexterity in Educational Development, Katherine Kearns, Molly Hatcher, Mara Bollard, Michele DiPietro, Devon Donohue-Bergeler, Leslie E. Drane, Elizabeth Luoma, Andrew E. Phuong, Laura Thain, and Mary C. Wright

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Good to Great in Educational Development, Bruce Kelley

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One Thing for All Learners, Linda B. Nilson

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Measuring Transparency: A Learning-Focused Assignment Rubric, Michael S. Palmer, Emily O. Gravett, and Jennifer LaFleur

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Mentoring Graduate Student Staff in a Center for Teaching and Learning: Goals and Aligned Practices, Kristin Rudenga and Joseph Lambert

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Invitations and Expeditions, but Hardly Ever Destinations, Tracy W. Smith

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Balancing Direction and Response: Four Dimensions of Transformative Facilitation in Educational Development, Roben Torosyan and Alison Cook-Sather

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Transforming the Classroom at Traditionally White Institutions to Make Black Lives Matter, Frank Truitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart

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Workshopping a Workshop: Collaborative Design in Educational Development, Eleanor V. H. Vandegrift, Amy B. Mulnix, Jennifer R. Yates, and S. Raj Chaudhury

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A Minimalist Model of New Faculty Mentoring: Why Asking for Less Gives More, Heather Lobban Viravong and Mark Schneider

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The Four Rs: Guiding CTLs with Responsiveness, Relationships, Resources, and Research, Mary C. Wright, Debra Rudder Lohe, Tershia Pinder-Grover, and Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens

2017

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Educational Development as Pink Collar Labor: Implications and Recommendations, Lindsay Bernhagen and Emily Gravett

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Educational Development Efforts Aligned With the Assessment Cycle, Phyllis Blumberg

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Writing Renewal Retreats: The Scholarly Writer, Contemplative Practice, and Scholarly Productivity, Edward Brantmeier, Cathryn Molloy, and Jennifer Byrne

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On the Other Side of the Wall: The Miscategorization of Educational Developers in the United States?, David A. Green and Deandra Little

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Evaluating Centers for Teaching and Learning: A Field-Tested Model, Susan R. Hines

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Stepping Stones: A Leadership Development Program to Inspire and Promote Reflection Among Women Faculty and Staff, Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, Zachary S. Morgan, Lauren (Chism) Schmidt, Emily C. Valvoord, Megan M. Palmer, and Mary E. Dankoski

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Foreign and U.S Educated Faculty Members’ Views on What Constitutes Excellent Teaching: Effects of Gender and Discipline, Emad A. Ismail and James E. Groccia

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Metacognition by Design: How a Course Design Experience Can Increase Metacognition in Faculty, Teresa A. Johnson, Sarah A. Holt, Margaret Sanders, Lindsay Bernhagen, Kathryn Plank, Stephanie V. Rohdieck, and Alan Kalish

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Moving Toward the Center: The Integration of Educational Development in an Era of Historic Change in Higher Education, Bruce Kelley, Laura Cruz, and Nancy Fire

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Exploring the Potential of Educational Developer Portfolios, Natasha Kenny, Isabeau Iqbal, Jeannette McDonald, Paola Borin, Debra Dawson, Judy Chan, and Erika Kustra

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The Aspirational Curriculum Map: A Diagnostic Model for Action-Oriented Program Review, Eric Metzler, George Rehrey, Lisa Kurz, and Joan Middendorf

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Assessing the Long-Term Impact of the Preparing Future Faculty Seminar, Laura N. Schram, Tershia Pinder-Grover, and Stefan Turcic II

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Assessment from an Educational Development Perspective, Mary C. Wright, Molly Goldwasser, Wayne Jacobson, and Christopher Dakes

2016

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Beyond Survival: Educational Development and the Maturing of the POD Network, Leslie Ortquist Ahrens

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The Challenges of Promoting Instructional Improvement: Teaching Behaviors and Teaching Cultures at Liberal Arts Institutions in the Associated Colleges of the South, Kent Andersen, Barbara Lom, and Betsy A. Sandlin

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Receive, Reorganize, Return: Theatre as Creative Scholarship, Sara Armstrong and Theresa Braunschneider

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Designing an Evaluation of Instructional Consultation in a Higher Education Context, Karen Elizabeth Brinkley Etzkorn, David Schumann, Beth White, and Tiffany Smith

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A Faculty Wellness Workshop Series: Leveraging On Campus Expertise, Thomas M. Brinthaupt, Arielle Neal, and Sheila Otto

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The Scholarship of Educational Development: A Taxonomy, Laura Cruz

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Don’t Box Me In: Rubrics for ártists and Designers, Natasha Haugnes and Jennifer L. Russell

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The Use of Song to Open an Educational Development Workshop: Exploratory Analysis and Reflections, Lawrence Lesser, Song An, and Daniel Tillman

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Subjectivities in the Sandbox: Discovering Biases through Visual Memo Writing, Bethany Lisi

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Systematic Assessment of a High Impact Course Design Institute, Michael S. Palmer, Adriana C. Streifer, and Stacy Williams Duncan

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High Retention of Minority and International Faculty through a Formal Mentoring Program, Susan L. Phillips, Susan T. Dennison, and Mark A. Davenport

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Improv(ing) the Academy: Applied Improvisation as a Strategy for Educational Development, Jonathan P. Rossing and Krista Hoffmann Longtin

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Connect, Change, and Conserve: Building a Virtual Center for Teaching Excellence, Anne M. Schoening and Sarah Oliver

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Institutionalizing Faculty Mentoring within a Community of Practice Model, Emily R. Smith, Patricia E. Calderwood, Stephanie Burrell Storms, Paula Gill Lopez, and Ryan P. Colwell

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Toward a New Creative Scholarship of Educational Development: The Teaching and Learning Project and an Opening to Discourse, Martin Springborg and Cassandra V. Horii

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Good, Fast, Cheap: How Centers of Teaching and Learning Can Capitalize in Today’s Resource Constrained Context, Michael H. Truong, Stephanie Juillerat, and Deborah H. C. Gin

2015

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Systems Alignment for Comprehensive Faculty Development in Liberal Arts Colleges, Vicki L. Baker, Laura G. Lunsford, and Meghan J. Pifer

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Flipping the Mindset: Reframing Fear and Failure to Catalyze Development, Diane E. Boyd, Josie Baudier, and Traci Stromie

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Creating a Supportive Teaching Culture in the Research University Context: Strategic Partnering and Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between a Teaching Centerand Academic Units, Marie Kendall Brown, Patricia A. S. Ralston, Kathy B. Baumgartner, and Melissa A. Schreck

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Encouraging Faculty Attendance at Professional Development Events, Dakin Burdick, Tim Doherty, and Naomi Schoenfeld

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Mentoring Within a Community of Practice for Faculty Development: Adding Value to a CTL Role, Patricia E. Calderwood and Suzanna Klaf

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A View From the Margins: Situating CTL Staff in Organizational Development, Emily O. Gravett and Lindsay Bernhagen

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A Worthy Asset: The Adjunct Faculty and the Influences on Their Job Satisfaction, Telvis Rich

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Teaching Renewal for Midcareer Faculty: Attending to the Whole Person, Catherine Ross

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Unpacking and Communicating the Multidimensional Mission of Educational Development: A Mission Matrix Tool for Centers of Teaching and Learning, Connie Schroeder

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Negotiating a Seat at the Table: Questions to Guide Institutional Involvement, Gregory J. Siering, Suzanne Tapp, Debra Rudder Lohe, and Micah Meixner Logan

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A Teaching Conference of One’s Own: Inviting Faculty into the Scholarly Work of Teaching, Julie Sievers

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Implementing a University Wide Change Initiative, Ronald A. Styron Jr.

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Overcoming Pedagogical Solitude: The Transformative Power of Discipline Specific Faculty Learning Communities, Mariela Tovar, Rosalie Jukier, Jennie Ferris, and Kristen Cardoso

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Developmental Stages of New Graduate Student Instructional Consultants: Implications for Professional Growth, Mary C. Wright, Laura N. Schram, and Kristen S. Gorman

2014

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Mapping Classroom Interactions: A Spatial Approach to Analyzing Patterns of Student Participation, Sophia Abbot, Alison Cook Sather, and Carola Hein

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Stereotype Threat–Based Diversity Programming: Helping Students While Empowering and Respecting Faculty, Isis Artze Vega, Leslie Richardson, and Adrienne Traxler

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Emotion in the Classroom: An Update, Janine Bowen

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Tracing the Evolution of Educational Development Through the POD Network's Institute for New Faculty Developers, Michele DiPietro

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Developing Scholarly Teachers Through an SoTL Faculty Fellowship, Beth A. Fisher, Michelle D. Repice, Carolyn L. Dufault, Denise A. Leonard, and Regina F. Frey

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Tracking POD's Engagement with Diversity: A Content Analysis of To Improve the Academy and POD Network Conference Programs From 1977 to 2011, Stacy E. Grooters

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Just Ask: Using Faculty Input to Inform Communication Strategies, Krista Hoffmann Longtin, Megan M. Palmer, Julie L. Welch, Emily C. Walvoord, and Mary E. Dankoski

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Preparing New Faculty for Leadership: Understanding and Addressing Needs, Anne Kelsch and Joan Hawthorne

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Reflections on the State of the Scholarship of Educational Development, Deandra Little

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Measuring the Promise: A Learning Focused Syllabus Rubric, Michael Palmer, Dorothe Bach, and Adriana Streifer

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Sequential Online Course Redesign: When “It Just Takes Time” Works No Longer, Genevieve G. Shaker, Sarah K. Nathan, and Elizabeth J. Dale

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Peer Collaboration: Improving Teaching through Comprehensive Peer Review, Shelley L. Smith

2013

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About the Authors, Volume 32 (2013)

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Navigating the New Normal, Terre H. Allen, Holly Harbinger, and Donald J. Para

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From Outsiders to Insiders: Graduate Assistant Development at State Comprehensive Universities, Kathleen M. Brennan, Laura Cruz, and Freya B. Kinner

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Using Undergraduates to Prepare International Teaching Assistants for the American Classroom: Development of Senior Faculty, Warren E. Christian and Brian J. Rybarczyk

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Student Consultants of Color and Faculty Members Working Together Toward Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Alison Cook-Sather and Praise Agu

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Connect to Learning: Using E-Portfolios in Hybrid Professional Development, Bret Eynon, Judit Török, and Laura M. Gambino

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Program Planning, Prioritizing, and Improvement: A Simple Heuristic, Peter Felten, Deandra Little, Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens, and Michael Reder

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Fostering a Growth Mind-set: Integrating Research on Teaching and Learning and the Practice of Teaching, Beth A. Fisher, Carolyn L. Dufault, Michelle D. Repice, and Regina F. Frey

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Acknowledgments, Volume 32 (2013), James E. Groccia

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Preface, Volume 32 (2013), James E. Groccia

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The Reacting to the Past Pedagogy and Engaging the First–year Student, Paula Kay Lazrus and Gretchen Kreahling McKay

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Faculty Development Scholarship: An Analysis of to Improve the Academy, 1982-2011, Kathryn E. Linder and Suzanna Klaf

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Formal and Informal Support for Pretenure Faculty: Recommendations for Administrators and Institutions, Gwendolyn Mettetal and Gail M. McGuire

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Measuring Student Learning to Document Faculty Teaching Effectiveness, Linda B. Nilson

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Enhancing Vitality in Academic Medicine: Faculty Development and Productivity, Megan M. Palmer, Krista Longtin-Hoffmann, Tony Ribera, Mary E. Dankoski, Amy K. Ribera, and Tom F. Nelson Laird

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Tomorrow's Professor Today: Tracking Perceptions of Preparation for Future Faculty Competencies, Michael S. Palmer and Deandra Little

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Envisioning Creative Collaboration between Faculty and Technologists, Gail A. Rathbun, Sally Kuhlenschmidt, and David Sacks

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A Consultations Tracking Database System for Improving Faculty Development Consultation Services, Jason Rhode and Murali Krishnamurthi

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Developing a Faculty Learning Community Grounded in the Science of How People Learn: A Year-Long, Faculty-Led Teaching and Learning Seminar, Alison Rudnitsky, Glenn W. Ellis, Patricia Marten DiBartolo, and Kevin M. Shea

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Determining Our Own Tempos: Exploring Slow Pedagogy, Curriculum, Assessment, and Professional Development, Peter A. Shaw and Jennifer L. Russell

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Assessing the Long–term Impact of a Professional Development Program, Marcia M. Tennill and Margaret W. Cohen

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Mobile App Learning Lounge: A Scalable and Sustainable Model for Twenty-First-Century Learning, Michael H. Truong

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Pedagogical Gamification: Principles of Video Games that Can Enhance Teaching, Kevin Yee

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Keeping the Fire Burning: Strategies to Support Senior Faculty, Michael J. Zeig and Roger G. Baldwin

2012

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About the Authors, Volume 31 (2012)

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Contemplative Pedagogy, Daniel Barbezat and Allison Pingree

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The Gentle Art of Mentoring in Higher Education, Nancy H. Barry

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Tough-Love Consulting, Allison P. Boye and Suzanne Tapp

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Examining Effective Faculty Practice, Allison BrckaLorenz, Tony Ribera, Jillian Kinzie, and Eddie R. Cole

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Organizational Strategies for Fostering Faculty Racial Inclusion, Dannielle Joy Davis, Edward J. Brantmeier, Robert Torosyan, and Hyacinth E. Findlay

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Millennial Students, Michele DiPietro

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Professional Development for Geographically Dispersed Faculty, Emily Donnelli-Sallee, Amber Dailey-Hebert, and B. Jean Mandernach

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Faculty Engagement in Program-Level Outcomes Assessment, Elizabeth L. Evans

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Collaborating with Faculty to Design Active Learning with Flexible Technology, Beth A. Fisher, Kathryn G. Miller, William E. Buhro, Deborah J. Frank, and Regina F. Frey