ERIC Number: ED676760
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
The Design Process: Designing a Term Faculty Learning Community for VITAL Leadership Development at Iowa State University. A Resource Created by the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success
Nicole Hitt; K. C. Culver
Pullias Center for Higher Education
Iowa State University (ISU) is a public, four-year university in Eastern Iowa. About one-third of full-time faculty at ISU are in VITAL roles, positions they refer to as term faculty. Term faculty have promotion line opportunities that mirror tenure-line faculty; across five specialized roles (teaching, practice, clinical, research, and adjunct), there are ranks of assistant, associate, and professor. The Assistant Provost for Faculty Development recognized the need to better support term faculty and decided to develop a faculty learning community (FLC) for VITAL faculty to be piloted in the 2022-2023 academic year. To develop the term faculty learning community (TFLC), the assistant provost invited term faculty representatives from each of ISU's seven colleges to form a design team. This case study gives an overview of the project, including the design team process, program structure/design, and good practices in the design process. The report concludes with the program's successes and lessons learned.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Nontenured Faculty, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Best Practices, State Universities
Pullias Center for Higher Education. University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, Waite Phillips Hall Room 701, 3470 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089. Tel: 213-740-7218; Fax: 213-740-3889; e-mail: pullias@usc.edu; Web site: http://pullias.usc.edu
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Authoring Institution: University of Southern California, Pullias Center for Higher Education
Identifiers - Location: Iowa
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1914784
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