Beyond Bean Counting: Making Faculty Development Needs Assessment More Meaningful

Pamela M. Milloy, Iowa State University
Corly Brooke, Iowa State university

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Faculty development centers face many challenges including shrinking resources while providing an increasing array of programs and services to enhance learning. Needs assessment can be seen as a valuable tool to help centers focus efforts to meet the most salient needs relevant to the institutional mission. This chapter describes a faculty development needs assessment project that was implemented at a large public institution. Data collected was used to focus programming and guide decision-making. Based upon a presentation at the 2002 POD conference, selected needs assessment findings and their programmatic implications for the center are presented.