Open AccessTailoring Faculty Development Programs to Faculty Career Stages
Author(s) -
Seldin Peter
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2006.tb00455.x
Subject(s) - career development , medical education , psychology , faculty development , professional development , mathematics education , pedagogy , medicine
College faculty progress through a series of sequential career stages. Each is characterized by different motivations and professional development needs. Yet, too often, faculty developers rely on hunches rather than empirical data to guide programming decisions. This chapter describes the important research findings of a just completed national study to determine the different programming interests and needs of more than 500 beginning, mid‐career, and senior‐level faculty in the United States.