Staff development for artistic teaching involves no simple formula but encouragement of individuality and spontaneity. (Author)

Discusses a four-year project now in the second year at Earlham College to increase the use both by faculty and students of foreign languages. Provides the background to the project, the detailed objectives, and abbreviated comments on accomplishments to date. (EKN)

Programs of human resource management should be developed for academic medicine but will arrive only when faculty perceive the need and when it is linked to the reward system. Medical teaching evaluation is relatively new and there is little continuing research, and faculty must actively seek out the available materials. (Author/MSE)

Describes a seminar for experienced classroom teachers in which participants schedule weekly conversations with other teachers to explore deeply one teacher's teaching practices and theories. Goals are to appreciate the art of teaching, to gain release from isolation, and to attain more congruence between theories and practice. (Author/JM)

Studied the effectiveness of consultants as change agents in an elementary school by using undergraduate education majors in the classroom to conduct behavioral projects, and using graduate students as mini-consultants. Teachers were enrolled in a course for college credit and salary increments. Recommendations for would-be consultants are…

Notes that teacher education institutions are facing new demands to diversify the professional preparation of their graduates and that responses to these demands will require new efforts in curriculum and faculty development. (FL)

These guidelines for setting up instructional computing and computer literacy programs using microcomputers include consideration of program planning, hardware selection and purchase, and faculty development. (Author/JJD)

The School of Education at San Francisco State University developed a model program of faculty development. The primary focus of the faculty development plan incorporated development activities that would be initiated within individual departments. A secondary focus of the program is centered around the entire school. (JN)

The nominal group process, if used when assessing staff development needs, can improve the staff development program by bringing into the open factors inhibiting change. (Author/JM)

Examines conflicts between the backgrounds and attitudes of faculty in community colleges and the colleges' goal of providing equal educational opportunity to students. Suggests that the situation might be improved by focusing attention on four areas: (1) graduate school training; (2) staff development; (3) faculty diversity; and (4) identity…

Under Illinois State University's Experimental Leave Program, faculty are released from their teaching duties for two days to three weeks to update their knowledge in their areas of expertise. The program provides professional development opportunities in a format and time frame consistent with industrial and technological advancements. (SK)

Discusses professional growth contracting as a means of encouraging staff to define their own professional development needs. Describes how professional growth contracting is being used by the student affairs staff at a Maine university. (Author)

Traces the development of the performance appraisal program of the Hicksville, New York, public school system, which was designed to improve instructional programs. Describes the strong opposition the program received from teachers. (FL)

Faculty members of America's universities and colleges, it is suggested, are finding the real world of academic life increasingly out of tune with the careers they prepared for. Seven faculty members are profiled whose careers illustrate difficulties academics may face at several stages of their lives. (MLW)

In 1971 the National Library of Medicine underwrote the promotion of computer technology integration into clinical medicine by providing graduate-level training for faculty members in the health sciences. The experience of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the implementation of an NLM training grant is reported. (MLW)