Center for Faculty Development

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The Department Chair

Each issue of this quarterly online publication offers a collection of short articles related to academic administration.

•  Spring 2007
•  Winter 2007
•  Fall 2006
•  Summer 2006
•  Spring 2006

Essays on Teaching Excellence

Essays on Teaching Excellence are available in PDF format or in print. This series of essays focuses on a variety of topics related to college teaching and university faculty development.

2007-2008 Essay Series

•  Beyond Writing: Integrative Learning and Teaching in First-Year Seminars
•  Developing the Scholorship of Teaching and Learning Using Faculty learning Communities
•  Teaching, Learning, and Spirituality in the College Classroom
•  Role-Play: An Often Misused Active Learning Strategy
•  Building Assignments that Teach
•  Collaboration or Plagiarism? Explaining Collaborative-Based Assignments Clearly
•  The Right Start: Reflections on a Departmentally Based Graduate Course on Teaching
•  The Useful, Sensible, No-Frills Departmental Assessment Plan

2006-2007 Essay Series

•  A Microteaching Model that Maximizes Feedback, Peer Engagment, and Teaching Enhancement
•  Motivating Generation Y in the Classroom
•  Student Plagiarism: How to Maintain Academic Integrity
•  Incorporating Course-Level Evidence of Student Learning into Program Assessment
•  Information Literacy: Imperatives for Faculty
•  When Disability Enters a Teacher’s Life, Must the Teacher Stop Teaching?

2005-2006 Essay Series

•  Leveling the Field: Using Rubrics to Achieve Greater Equity in Teaching and Grading
•  Laughterpiece Theatre: Humor as a Systematic Teaching Tool
•  Assessing Students' Online Learning: Strategies and Resources
•  Teaching Portfolios for Graduate Students: Process, Content, Product, and Benefits
•  From Passive to Active Learning: Helping Students Make the Shift
•  Student Teams, Teaching and Technology
•  Practice Tests: a Practical Teaching Method
•  Using Student-Centered Assessment to Enhance Learning