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...Margaret K. Willard-Traub The author considers faculty development and its potential relationship to the ethos of collaborative practice modeled both by critical (Freirean) pedagogy and by interdisciplinary research. As a primary concern for any academic administrator, faculty development...

...Michael Murphy The report “Education in the Balance” represents a significant new acknowledgment of the centrality of teaching faculty to the academic project on the part of professional organizations in English studies. David Bartholomae is right to worry that the emergence of positions...

...Linda S. Bergmann The books under review here envision models of professional development not as episodes of developing skills or training faculty to conform to changing laws, rules, and pet projects of administrators, but rather as collaborative processes of education and reflection that encourage...

...Glenn Blalock This overview of resources for faculty development initiatives in Englishstudies proposes a specific framework and sequence for faculty development work and identifies and annotates key resources. It proposes that the sequence for should take place within the theoretical framework...

...Jason Schneider Despite increased enrollments of multilingual students at US colleges and universities, many composition faculty lack specialized training to support second language writers. This article offers a framework through which faculty and administrators can begin developing knowledge...

... . n.d. “ Background Facts on Contingent Faculty Positions .” www.aaup.org/issues/contingency/background-facts ( accessed 14 May 2019 ). American College Health Association . 2017 . National College Health Assessment: Spring 2017 Reference Group: Executive Summary . www.acha.org/documents...

...Nancy Welch These papers were given at the 2011 MLA panel on faculty governance. They present the topic's importance in the face of budget crises and institutional pressure. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Editors' Note: We are pleased to feature these papers, originally presented...

... and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms . 2nd ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass . Clegg Victoria L. Cashin William E. . 1986 . Improving Multiple-Choice Tests. IDEA Paper no. 16 . Manhattan, KS : Kansas Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development , www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files...

...-and-technology-use/ . Making Ends Meet Literature Pedagogy, Faculty – Graduate Student Teamwork, and Undergraduate Literacy Andrew Weeks, Kelsey Forkner, Susan George, and Josette Lorig Discussions of best teaching practices often presuppose optimal circum- stances, but real courses...

...://archive.nwp.org/cs/public/download/nwp_file/15188/Framework_For_Success_in_Postsecondary_Writing.pdf?x-r=pcfile_d . Deitering Anne-Marie , and Jameson Sara . 2008 . “ Step by Step through the Scholarly Conversation: A Collaborative Library/Writing Faculty Project to Embed Information Literacy...

...Lee Skallerup Bessette This article examines the intersection between the feelings of anxiety and love. The author looks at how the affective labor she performs professionally has shifted as she has moved from a contingent faculty role to a faculty development role. This shift, while necessary...

...John Wittman; Mariana Abuan This article argues that graduate education often does not fully prepare students to take on the role of faculty member after graduation because it does not make students aware of the importance of faculty responsibilities such as service. It also suggests...

...Rob Faunce The renewed interest in personal essays in composition complicates the contested, tricky personal identity negotiations for students and faculty in first-year writing, particularly in manifestations and representations of the body in both the classroom and writing spaces...

...Ruth G. Garcia; Jody R. Rosen Abstract Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased feelings of isolation and lack of support among faculty. Grounded in collaborative curriculum and professional development, the Core Books at CUNY project offers faculty the opportunity to work together...

...Beth Daniell; Laura Davis; Linda Stewart; Ellen Taber The first-year writing program at Kennesaw State University has found its in-house conference (IHC) to be an important venue for faculty development. Based on the assumption that teachers actually know what they are doing, the IHC invites...

...Barbara Schneider This article considers why, in the wake of Ernest Boyer's work, the promise of a transformation of university teaching has not been broadly realized and what that implies for faculty development projects. It discusses the assumptions that place the professional development...

...Paul Hanstedt; Gary Hollis; Rachelle Ankney; Hans Zorn; Gordon Marsh The Roanoke College Writing Initiative Grant (WIG) program provides a two-thousand-dollar stipend for non-English Department faculty to teach in the first-year writing program. Faculty is expected to teach three iterations...

...D. Alexis Hart; Roger Thompson Suggesting that higher education is at a pivotal time regarding the influx of veteran students on campus, this and the following essays argue that faculty have an ethical obligation to investigate and, if appropriate, respond to the veteran student demographic...

... considering the labor conditions of contingent, minoritized, or otherwise vulnerable faculty. This article proposes hostile/hospitable programmatic architectures as a framework for understanding how institutional ecologies may be configured in ways that undermine or support the use of equitable assessment...

...Laura L. Behling Abstract Faculty and students in English and other humanities disciplines engage in undergraduate research and scholarship. Administrative support ensures institutional practices, policies such as those focused on tenure and promotion, and rewards are in place to encourage students...