Center for Faculty Development

​The Department Chair

Each issue of The Department Chair​, a quarterly online publication, offers a collection of short articles related to academic administration.

Becoming a New Instructor

This electronic publication, Becoming a New Instructor​ is an excellent resource and guide for new teachers, college adjuncts and graduate students.

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