Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Playing Well With Others: Academic Development as a Team Sport
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Abstract
An important first step to attacking significant institutional problems is working across the organizational silos that encompass campus units. This chapter draws upon an experience in collaboration through which an academic development center chose to partner with a variety of campus units to address a vexing problem facing many campuses: unacceptable rates of first-year student retention. The chapter then goes beyond the case to identify the kinds of collaborations that can be created to treat other pressing academic issues and highlight characteristics of successful collaborations that academic development centers can initiate or join.
This paper has been withdrawn.