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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Terosky, Aimee LaPointe – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
During the last 20 years, faculty have faced rising workloads, increasing amounts of top-down accountability and oversight, mounting publication demands, decreasing numbers of tenure-track positions, and an increasingly dismal job market. The current recession has exacerbated the pressure by requiring departmental budget cuts, faculty layoffs,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Organizational Development, Performance Technology
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Gray, Tara; Shadle, Susan E. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2009
Some teaching centers flounder while others flourish. This paper provides concrete suggestions for launching or revitalizing a teaching center, drawn from the experiences of these authors and from principles in the literature. Two center directors worked to apply the principles in the literature to their newly launched or revitalized centers. One…
Descriptors: Teacher Centers, Organizational Development, Position Papers, Alignment (Education)
Geltner, Beverley B.; Ditzhazy, Helene R. – 1994
Efforts to reform educational administration programs depend on the ability of faculty members to develop shared purpose and understanding. This paper describes the experiences of nine faculty members in a department of educational administration in a large midwestern university, who, in seeking to transform their preparation program, transformed…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Collegiality, Educational Administration, Faculty Development
Kruse, Sharon; Louis, Karen Seashore – Brief to Principals, 1995
Schools across the United States are creating teacher teams in ever-greater numbers. "Teaming" refers to assembling a group of teachers from different disciplines and/or grade levels who work together as a "core group" responsible for teaching a subset of the school's population. This brief examines some of the potential conflicts between teacher…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development, Group Unity