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The first decade of the 21st century brought major challenges to higher education, all of which have implications for and impact the future of faculty professional development. This volume provides the field with an important snapshot of faculty development structures, priorities and practices in a period of change, and uses the collective wisdom of those engaged with teaching, learning, and faculty development centers and programs to identify important new directions for practice. <br /><br />Building on their previous study of a decade ago, published under the title of <i>Creating the Future of Faculty Development</i>, the authors explore questions of professional preparation and pathways, programmatic priorities, collaboration, and assessment. Since the publication of this earlier study, the pressures on faculty development have only escalated—demands for greater accountability from regional and disciplinary accreditors, fiscal constraints, increasing diversity in types of faculty appointments, and expansion of new technologies for research and teaching. Centers have been asked to address a wider range of institutional issues and priorities based on these challenges. How have th

Author

Andrea L. Beach; Mary Deane Sorcinelli; Ann E. Austin; Jaclyn K. Rivard

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620362693

Subjects

Education