Volume IV: What works, what matters, what lasts

Senior Faculty

Building the Human Infrastructure & Human Resources

• From an analysis of reports from PKAL Faculty for the 21st Century (PKAL F21)
  What works: Providing a supportive climate in which all faculty flourish takes time, resources, and planning
  Scholarly agendas provide the backbone for faculty development. These agendas should be linked to departmental goals, well balanced, flexible and realistic. In addition, departments should recognize faculty when pivotal scholarly goals are attained.

• What works - An essay
  Investing in faculty at every career stage
  - Alison Morrison-Shetlar, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning - University of Central Florida
  - Kathleen Hohenleitner, Senior Faculty Fellow, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning - University of Central Florida
  It is essential for colleges and university to invest in faculty development at every career level. In the face of general concerns about research grants, endowments, regional and international partnerships, it is critical that institutions take time to reflect on the job faculty have at hand, that of teaching and learning.