Increasing career demands and expanding role expectations in a hyperconnected world batter higher education professionals, much like a tsunami of crashing waves toss a dingy at sea. To overcome the onslaught, professors are all but mandated to proactively build personal brands that deliver value propositions tightly aligning skills, expertise, and…

This manuscript offers a framework for encouraging faculty from diverse disciplines to consider and evaluate their teaching, scholarship, and service in interdisciplinary ways. This process integrates Repko's (2008) criteria for interdisciplinarians, Doran, Miller, and Cunningham's (1981) conceptualization of S.M.A.R.T. goals, and McCoy and…

In this paper, we analyzed 50 faculty interviews to explore the function of colleagueship across different types of institutions. Our findings highlight that colleagueship served toward the improvement of teaching, disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning, securing one's research agenda, career management, and friendship. We attend to the…

Background: Interprofessional teamwork is a crucial competency in health professions education which improves patient care. However, interprofessional education is not a widespread practice in medical schools. To address this need, we developed an educational pilot utilizing a standardized patient simulation to teach interprofessional…

The department of English at West Chester University, Pennsylvania provides a laboratory for examining the situation of composition in a department that has documented its dedication to a unified study of English based on attention to reading and writing. The department adopted a "Statement of Coherence" that signals a dialectic: the…

A survey investigated the interprofessional perceptions of 75 therapeutic recreation and 80 occupational therapy practitioners. Results show significant differences in interprofessional perceptions and interdisciplinary cooperation between practitioners of these two disciplines. (GLR)

This paper examines the experience of one school in southern Ohio in implmenting an interdisciplinary pilot program during the 1993-94 school year. The Connections program at Cedar City High School was designed to encompass the content areas of English, science, and social studies. The program derived its name from its interdisciplinary goals of…

Study examined perceptions of interdisciplinary collaboration (IDC) within 12 Ohio institutions of higher education (IHEs) that prepare educational personnel. Faculty/administrator questionnaires regarding IDC indicated IHEs are not prepared to model IDC; funding for IDC must be external; IHEs must penetrate perceptions about various disciplines;…

This study looked at the experience of four high school teachers as they worked to develop a collegial community by implementing the "Connections" program. The teachers were on the faculty at Cedar City High School in southern Ohio where their subjects were, respectively, English, Social Studies, and Physical Science; one teacher was in…

In searching for avenues to create a collaborative school environment in which autonomous teachers impact the outcomes of schooling and students become independent learners, there is increasing interest in "self-managing work groups." This paper presents findings of a study that examined the role of the principal in the development of…

This article describes and assesses "Research Circles" as a mechanism for enhancing faculty collegiality and research. Recently established on our campus, these circles, composed of three to four faculty members, have had a particularly powerful effect on the new faculty members' adjustment to their tenure track positions, especially since they…

This paper responds to the Institute of Medicine's 1995 report concerning the present status and future needs of dental education in the United States. It stresses that the dental profession does not want dentistry integrated into medicine though it recognizes the need for a closer association, for changes in the accreditation process, and for a…

This report is a formative evaluation of the use of an online listserv discussion group as part of a continuing project with schools exploring or implementing interdisciplinary teamed instruction (ITI). A survey was developed to identify member characteristics, what services were liked and used most, and what services were desired. Analysis of 59…

For 2 years, the division of education at Oglethorpe University (Georgia) has been building links among professors of teacher education, professors of liberal arts and sciences, and K-12 teachers (the triumvirate). The paper describes attempts to strengthen the multicultural dimension of the program. One very successful activity has been the…

The Training for Interprofessional Collaboration Project (TIC) is a joint effort of five professional schools of the University of Washington and various community sites and agencies to provide preservice (graduate level) and inservice training in teacher and interprofessional collaboration. The guide includes bibliographies, case studies,…