The "Purplebook" is an essential part of the "Greenbook System", which is an integrated sequence of five individualized programs (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon) designed for the professional development of college educators. The Delta program is aimed at professional staff in higher education who are just completing…

A conference held at Austin College, focusing on educational change, discussed: (1) changing tasks and college renewal; (2) new role for students; (3) new role for faculty, including the importance of faculty development; (4) the total institutional approach; and (5) the future role of the liberal arts college. An appendix presents Austin College…

In an attempt to identify generalizable features of professional development programs for faculty, the California State University and Colleges system set out in 1974 to develop and test on a local basis, several models of professional development. A systemwide Center for Professional Development was established to facilitate and monitor the…

Findings from the Project on Institutional Renewal through the Improvement of Teaching (PIRIT) support those from other studies showing that faculty development programs can benefit both their participants and the overall campus climate. Data were gathered from a survey of faculty at 14 of the PIRIT institutions. (Author/LBH)

The author calls for the implementation of a formal structure of staff involvement of Open University (United Kingdom) part-time staff in the planning and implementation of staff development programs. Such a plan would help improve relations between the University and its part-time instructional staff. (JMD)

Describes the development of the Self-Training and Evaluation Program (STEP), a performance-based professional development program for college instructors teaching in an individualized performance-based instructional system. The DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) model, consisting of a skill profile that serves as a curriculum plan and an evaluation…

Discusses the problems of staff selection and development in the community-based college, focusing on desirable qualities for instructors, such as willingness to be trained as a functional part of a community-based enterprise; sources for potential teachers; and training techniques for those with and without experience. (AYC)

Successful strategies for planning an inservice or staff development project in an individual school involve the following: planning and preparing, enlisting support, implementing the activity, and evaluating the results. (CB)

A faculty development program at a traditionally black college was designed to enhance the ability of graduate faculty to supervise research activities of graduate students. Focus was on interpersonal problem solving in advisement and professional issues; classroom techniques of discussion teaching, case methods, and psychodrama encouraged the…

The changing, more competitive health care system has introduced new issues into maintaining competence in the medical profession. Increasing costs, decreasing hospital stays, different medical service delivery systems, litigiousness, and more demanding licensing and recertification must be addressed. (MSE)

Provides an annotated bibliography of ERIC materials dealing with the community college mission, educational quality, maintaining an effective faculty, effects and management of retrenchment, and the state role in community college education. (LAL)

The Canadian government has established three centers of educational excellence especially for hearing impaired and deaf college students at the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario, and the Atlantic Centre at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The centre has initiated such activities as a faculty awareness program,…

Looks beyond the threatening and remunerative aspects of teacher appraisal in the United Kingdom to the contribution that evaluation can make to professional and school development. Considers five sound reasons for appraisal, the roles and behaviors to be appraised, and some workable approaches and techniques. Effective leadership is the key.…

The University of Guelph's Office for Educational Practice, an administrative unit for instructional development that relies on faculty volunteer leadership and participation, is described and discussed in the context of research on improvement of instructional effectiveness. (MSE)

Six theme articles examine ways that vocational agriculture teachers can keep current, including related hobbies, resource persons, beekeeping as a supervised occupational experience, specialty crops such as fruits and nuts, an inservice poultry project, and trade and industry organizations. (SK)