Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

1986

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy, published jointly by The Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education and The National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD), volume 5, 1986.

Comments

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

The POD Network decided to conduct a survey of faculty development practices for several reasons. First, many people believed that the "faculty development movement" was a casualty of tight budgets and an inevitable loss of faith in yesterday's strategies; some of us had our doubts. Also, we were curious about just what kinds of services were being offered by whom in our colleges and universities and whether things had changed dramatically in the years since Centra's survey (Centra, 1976). Finally, we had never had a decent mailing list of "development" practitioners, yet we claimed to be committed to putting such folks in touch with each other.

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