Community College Faculty Scholarship

Community College Faculty Scholarship
Author: John M. Braxton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2015-08-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119133297

While teaching occupies the primary role of faculty members in community colleges, the question remains: To what extent are community college faculty members engaged in research and scholarship? This issue focuses on: the types of research and scholarship performed by community college faculty, the forces that foster or impede the engagement of community college faculty members in research and scholarship, specific examples of community college faculty scholarship that demonstrate the value of this work to the institution and to larger society, and policies and practices at the institutional, local, and state level that support engagement in research and scholarship. This is the 171st volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

Fostering a Climate for Faculty Scholarship at Community Colleges

Fostering a Climate for Faculty Scholarship at Community Colleges
Author: James C. Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The essays in this monograph address three themes related to the challenge of scholarship at the community college. The first is leadership. Leaders need to change attitudes and institutional values if scholarship is to take its place as an accepted part of community college life. The connection between scholarship and teaching, often denied in the false but widely accepted teaching-versus-research dichotomy, is a second theme. The professional obligations of community college educators constitute a third theme. In forging a larger role for scholarship within the community college culture, leaders can build upon the scholarly drives and interests that already exist among many faculty members and administrators. -- From publisher's description.

Scholarship Reconsidered

Scholarship Reconsidered
Author: Ernest L. Boyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119005868

Shifting faculty roles in a changing landscape Ernest L. Boyer's landmark book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate challenged the publish-or-perish status quo that dominated the academic landscape for generations. His powerful and enduring argument for a new approach to faculty roles and rewards continues to play a significant part of the national conversation on scholarship in the academy. Though steeped in tradition, the role of faculty in the academic world has shifted significantly in recent decades. The rise of the non-tenure-track class of professors is well documented. If the historic rule of promotion and tenure is waning, what role can scholarship play in a fragmented, unbundled academy? Boyer offers a still much-needed approach. He calls for a broadened view of scholarship, audaciously refocusing its gaze from the tenure file and to a wider community. This expanded edition offers, in addition to the original text, a critical introduction that explores the impact of Boyer's views, a call to action for applying Boyer's message to the changing nature of faculty work, and a discussion guide to help readers start a new conversation about how Scholarship Reconsidered applies today.

Faculty Development

Faculty Development
Author: Farrell Hoy Jenab
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475859090

Faculty Development: Creating a Collaborative Culture in Community Colleges addresses how faculty developers work with changes and challenges in teaching within the community college context. Using a multi-case study design based on semi-structured interviews, document analysis, focus groups and surveys, the book examines faculty development within six community college contexts. Three of these case studies, conducted before the Covid-19 pandemic, attended to how the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) were pillars for faculty development. The other three case studies feature the pivot that faculty developers and faculty made at their institutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In these cases, it is seen how faculty development shifts from long-term, sustained initiatives such as SOTL and FLCs to just-in-time (JiT) faculty development, as well as virtual and collaborative faculty development. As teaching models continue to evolve and faculty development takes hold in community colleges, this book features the role of collaboration as an essential component of faculty development, as well as what supports exist within the community college context to provide faculty with continual professional development.

The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM

The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-01-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309497299

Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that support mentorship. This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights on effective programs and practices that can be adopted and adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.

Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations

Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
Author: Robert T. Carter
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761905493

Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations provides conceptual models and practical approaches to organizational interventions which take account of cultural difference.