What Do We Know About Faculty? A New Way of Looking

Authors

Robert E. Young

Date of this Version

Fall 1979

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in the POD Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Fall 1979)

Abstract

Faculty development puts a focus on individual faculty members, their professional and personal lives. But what do we really know about faculty members? What do we know about how they think and act? What do we know about how they learn and develop in their many roles? In this article, I want to review some of what we do and do not know and propose a way to organize our understanding of faculty members as individuals.