To Improve the Academy

An annual publication of the Professional and OrganizationalDevelopment Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve theAcademy offers a resource for improvement in higher educationto faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs,faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers,and educational consultants.Contents include:* Professional development for geographically dispersedfaculty* Implementing a learning consortium for communication andchange* Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment* What educational developers need to know aboutfaculty-artists* Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty* Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers* Mentoring in higher education* Tough-love consulting in order to effect change* Research on the impact of educational development* Examining effective faculty practice* Insights on millennial students* Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers* Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluationterminology* Questions about student ratings* Small-group individual diagnosis to improve onlineinstruction* Supporting international faculty* Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, andlearning* Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racialinclusion* The truth about students' capacity for multitasking* Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitterbackchannel* Designing active learning with flexible technology