Open Access5: Getting Started with Faculty Development
Author(s) -
Figueroa Nadia Cordero,
SandínFremaint Pedro A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2002.tb00574.x
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , excellence , center (category theory) , process (computing) , principal (computer security) , center of excellence , sociology , political science , pedagogy , management , engineering ethics , engineering , engineering management , public relations , computer science , chemistry , law , economics , crystallography , operating system
As a result of an academic senate decision to reconceptualize the baccalaureate, the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico began, in late 1994, a major transformational process that has led it to rethink itself as a community of learners. One of the principal instruments of change has been our Center for Academic Excellence, created in early 1998 as a result of the transformational process. This chapter discusses the process that led to the creation of the center, as well as its structure, activities, and vision for the future. We hope that our experience will be useful to those institutions thinking about venturing into the area of faculty development.