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ERIC Number: ED283480
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 51
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Faculty Development Programs in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. [Revised Edition.]
Jorde, Karen L., Ed.; Young, Robert E., Ed.
Thirty-four faculty development programs at colleges and universities in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota are described. Descriptions of the programs, which are funded by the Bush Foundation, provide a brief overview of the college involved, outline the program goals and strategies and identify a contact person. Areas addressed by the programs include: faculty professional growth, matching teaching methods to the cognitive and personal maturation of students, improving teaching quality by promoting faculty connections with research and scholars, designing a core curriculum, strengthening faculty teaching skills, preparing faculty to participate in Writing Across the Curriculum programming, teaching faculty to integrate computers in the instructional process, improving faculty communication across disciplines, improving faculty's understanding of students, focusing on faculty as models of liberal arts practice, curriculum development that responds to the changing needs of student learning, maintaining balance between liberal arts and professional programs, integrating Native American culture into the curriculum, and faculty sabbaticals for undergraduate education. (SW)
Office of Instructional Development, University of North Dakota, Box 8161, University Station, Grand Forks, ND 58202.
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Bush Foundation, St. Paul, Minn.
Authoring Institution: North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks.
Identifiers - Location: Minnesota; North Dakota; South Dakota
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A