Volume 5 (1986) To Improve the Academy
Part I: Reflections
Reflections of a Practitioner: Ten Years of Professional and Organizational Development
William H. Bergquist
Social Commitment: A Vision for Higher Education
Sheryl Riechmann Hruska
Part II: Conceptualizations
Coping with Resistance to Faculty Development
Jim L. Turner and Robert Boice
Using Qualitative Methods to Generate Data for Instructional Development
Donald H. Wulff and Jody D. Nyquist
Peripheral Programming: An Approach to Faculty Development
Andy Farquharson
The Place of Practice-Centered Inquiry in a Faculty Development Program
Nancy Van Note Chism and Donald P. Sanders
Part III: Practice
CIDR: A Small Service Firm Within a Research University
Jody D. Nyquist
When Funds Won’t Stretch: Faculty and Organizational Development Projects for Miniscule Budgets
Susanne W. Whitcomb
Getting Development Underway Through Faculty Involvement
Dean Hustuft
Using Interviews in Development Programs for Beginning Teachers
Lawrence T. McGill and James M. Shaeffer
Academic Department Chair Training: The Why and The How of It
Ann F. Lucas
Learning to Teach in an American Classroom: Narrowing the Culture and Communication Gap for Foreign Teaching Assistants
Ellen Sarkisian
Genetics in Jeopardy: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Disease in an Undergraduate Medical Course—A Case Report
Richard G. Tiberius and R.J.M. Gold
Teaching the Introductory-Level Course: A Special Challenge
Delivee L. Wright
How to Prevent Students
Linc Fisch
Instructional Developers and Instructors as Collaborators in the Oral Presentation Assignment
Robert L. Flagler, John E. Hamlin & Ann Z. Russell
Part IV: Research
Tracing Academic Career Paths: Implications for Faculty Development
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
A Survey of Faculty Development Practices
Glenn Erickson



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