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NextUp: Intentional Faculty Leadership Development for All Ranks and Disciplines
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Ashe, Diana L.; TenHuisen, Matthew L. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2018
While most academic leadership training focuses on department chairs and those already in or identified for those positions, the NextUp Faculty Leadership Development Fellows program includes faculty who are considering academic leadership of any kind in their careers. Sixty faculty members have joined NextUp; forty-one have graduated and 19 are…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Teacher Leadership, Fellowships, Program Descriptions
Faculty Forum: Working With and Training Undergraduates as Teaching Assistants
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Hogan, Thomas P.; Norcross, John C.; Cannon, J. Timothy; Karpiak, Christie P. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
We describe a program for involving undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs) in many types of psychology courses, as well as a 1-credit seminar for preparation of UTAs. The program, widely used by both faculty and students, has matured over a 10-year period. The seminar covers such topics as course organization, evaluation procedures, and…
Descriptors: Seminars, Course Organization, Teaching Assistants, Undergraduate Students
Personal Computer Instruction for University Faculty.
Pourciau, Les – 1984
A survey was conducted in the fall of 1983 to investigate the provision of programs for faculty in microcomputer use at 30 southern and southeastern universities whose libraries were members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. Each participating university was sent a description of a 10-week set of seminars on personal computing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Literacy, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
A Survey of Creativity Courses at Universities in Principal Countries
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Xu, Fangqi; McDonnell, Ginny; Nash, William R. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2005
The following is a review of creativity courses and programs offered at universities in Europe, North America, Japan, and China. Creativity courses and programs occur in a variety of disciplines, but are found most frequently in fields such as business; education and psychology; and engineering, science, and technology. This paper provides…
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Comparative Education
These Things Called Honors Programs.
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Mack, Maynard, Jr. – Liberal Education, 1996
The evolution and design of an interdisciplinary honors course at the University of Maryland at College Park are described. The course, on knowledge and its human consequences, brings together faculty experts, "teacher-learner" faculty, and first-year honors students to explore different kinds of knowledge and their philosophical,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, Course Organization, Curriculum Design
Globalizing the Business School Curriculum: The Fordham Experience.
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DiLorenzo-Aiss, Janet; Dion, Paul – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1996
A Fordham University (New York) initiative to internationalize its undergraduate business curriculum is described. The curriculum development project, designed to both stem declining enrollment and make the curriculum more relevant to business needs, included student surveys, grant proposal preparation, assessment of local program competition,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Outcomes Assessment