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Coming in From the Margins : Faculty Development’s Emerging Organizational Development Role in Institutional Change by Connie Schroeder; Phyllis Blumberg; Nancy Chism; Devorah Lieberman; Catherine E. Frerichs; Susan Gano-Phillips; Diana G. Pace; Tamara Rosier is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Why is it critical for faculty development centers to reexamine their core mission today?The core argument of this book – that a necessary and significant role change is underway in faculty development – is a call for centers to merge the traditional responsibilities and services of the past several decades with a leadership role as organizational developers. Failing collectively to define and outline the dimensions and expertise of this new role puts centers at risk of not only marginalization, but of dissolution. When a TLC is busy and in demand, it is hard to believe that it may be, despite all the activity and palpable array of daily outcomes, institutionally marginalized. The actual and increasing potential of marginalization and center closings may help motivate this field to recognize the danger of complacency or remaining stuck in an old paradigm that exclusively defines itself as instructional development or supportive service. Proposing a newly defined organizational development role for academic and faculty developers and directors of teaching and learning centers, Coming in from the Margins examines how significant involvement in broader institutional change initiatives

Author

Connie Schroeder; Phyllis Blumberg; Nancy Chism; Devorah Lieberman; Catherine E. Frerichs; Susan Gano-Phillips; Diana G. Pace; Tamara Rosier

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781579225032

Subjects

Education, Management, Business