Multi Campus New Faculty Development To Improve The Culture Of Teaching

Summary and Current Activities The New Faculty Teaching Scholars Program is a multi-campus professional developmentprogram designed by the University of Missouri to promote student centered learning on its fourcampuses. In its first year, 93 faculty participated in on-campus activities, multi-campusteleconferences, and system-wide retreats aimed at helping them become better teachers. Theprogram was highly successful in promoting collegiality among participants and improving thestudent learning environment system-wide. More than 90% of participants changed theirteaching or their interactions with students based on things they experienced in the program.Now in its second year, subtle but substantive changes have been made in the NFTS program inresponse to input from first-year participants and the observations of the campus programdirectors. The teleconferences have been eliminated and replaced by additional on-campusactivities. The intent is to give campus program directors increased flexibility to tailor the