It is not easy being a new engineering faculty member (either as a newly minted PhD or as a
new faculty member to the university) and harder still to find one's bearings when faced with …

Abstract The Preparing Future Engineering Faculty Professional Development Series was
initiated in 1999 as a means for engineering graduate students considering academic …

A paradigm shift is underway in higher education. Realizing the hoped‐for gains of new
student‐centered approaches will require significantly different approaches to faculty …

Currently there is a growing demand for universities to create rigorous professional
development programs aimed at helping their junior faculty rise to their full potential as …

The challenge of teaching and learning professionalism has been highlighted by many
authors. 1–6 The increasing complexity of the practice of medicine, coupled with the entry of …

While faculty development has occurred in our colleges and universities for many years, our
complex and changing academic environment challenges us to place more importance on …

When it comes to faculty development, institutions seem to suffer a personality split. While
our work as educators is focused on developing either the young or the uninitiated with …

This theory paper describes the development and use of a framework for supporting early
career faculty development, especially in competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) …

In the 21st century, colleges and universities need to consider faculty development
programs in the same way that they view academic programs for their Net Gen and …

Essays are collected on faculty development programs that are felt to have positively
affected both the institutions and individual faculty members. They include: Faculty …