...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...

...Michelle Sidler With the importance of online research, writing, and communication, computers are increasingly vital to instruction within the humanities. To help prepare teachers and administrators who engage with computerized instruction, this article examines faculty development through the lens...

...Leonard Cassuto; Paul Jay The authors call for more flexible dissertation projects but also argue that problems with graduate education range far wider than the doctoral dissertation. Many faculty resist the idea that the humanities can train students in skills that are useful, even marketable...

...Doug Hesse A review of general education at the author’s university led to an effort to include project- and theme-based interdisciplinary courses that addressed the “public good,” but many faculty resisted what they perceived as threats to purely disciplinary knowledge. When knowledge is under...

... in undergraduate research mentorship positions that are mutually beneficial for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty. They show how this model can be scaled up and adapted across the range of English disciplines. The authors share examples of the different types of research that they have engaged...

... . Griffiths Brett . 2017 . “ Professional Autonomy and Teacher- Scholar- Activists in Two- Year Colleges: Preparing New Faculty to Think Institutionally .” Teaching English in the Two- Year College 45 . 1 : 47 – 68 . Grubb W. Norton Worthen Helena . 1999 . Honored but Invisible...

..., the professions say who may practice, after what kind of preparation, with what kind of oversight. Therefore, one of the simplest descriptions of the permanent structural change to the professoriate is that it has been steadily deprofessionalized since 1970, when at least three-­quarters of the faculty...

.... Doing so doesn’t mean giving up dis- ciplinary or pedagogical commitments, but instead requires us to approach the experience with a mindset open to difference and even to the revision of our beliefs about knowledge and teaching and learning. Faculty preparing to engage in interdisciplinary...

... . “ How Writing Faculty Write: Interviews with Rhetoric and Composition Faculty and Process, Product, and Productivity .” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication , Tampa, FL , 20 March . Preparing Graduate Students for Academic Publishing Results from a Study...

.... He asserts that teachers must be masters of what they teach, but content knowledge alone will not make a teacher prepared. Teach- ers must also know how students grow and develop. Hewett both acknowl- edges the importance many faculty were placing on content and recognizes the Herbartian attention...

... by a faculty member and an experienced gradu- ate instructor, addresses such topics as integrated course design (preparing syllabi and lesson plans, leading discussions, lecturing, teaching writing, conducting assessment, and grading), writing recommendations, and manag- ing students, faculty, and time...

.... And despite the bourgeoning literature on professional preparation, the job market, and faculty work, most new PhDs have learned to respond in a similar way. They know that the profession systematically values the mostly individual work of scholarship and publication over the relational work of teaching...

... while we better align ourselves with the twenty-first century. While heavy faculty workloads can discourage innovation and gradu- ate students may be reluctant to add content to their professional preparation, the incorporation of a broader base of learning strategies is key to the health...

... and Results from a CCCC Research Grant .” Composition Studies 34.2 : 59 – 84 . Blair Kristine . 2011 . “ Preparing 21st-Century Faculty to Engage 21st Century Learners: The Incentives and Rewards for Online Pedagogies .” In Higher Education, Emerging Technologies and Community Partnerships , ed...

..., supported and inspired by a national grant program called Preparing Future Faculty (PFF), we have launched a range of activities to help them become self-aware and self-confident teachers of literature.1 For the project in which I partici- pated, faculty members connect a graduate literature course...

...” faculty (almost exclusively tenured or tenure-­track and charged with the preparation of majors and graduate students). I will have more to say on this below. From the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, 1993 and 2004 The NSOPF data set was extremely useful, since it allowed us...

... about the teaching of writing and literature, we weren t engaged in discussions even within our university about preparing English teachers. Programs like the National Writing Project and the Summer Institutes for Teachers simply passed us by. As an urban, public university, our faculties in education...

... about the teaching of writing and literature, we weren t engaged in discussions even within our university about preparing English teachers. Programs like the National Writing Project and the Summer Institutes for Teachers simply passed us by. As an urban, public university, our faculties in education...

... in discussions even within our university about preparing English teachers. Programs like the National Writing Project and the Summer Institutes for Teachers simply passed us by. As an urban, public university, our faculties in education and English were tremendously burdened with a 4/4 teaching load...

... drafts that I view and provide feedback through Track Changes in Word documents or com- ments in Google Docs. In developing students reading skills, I am fortunate that many of my discipline faculty partners provide study guides to facilitate focused reading of the required texts. Some also prepare...