To Improve the Academy
Volume 26
An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.
Contents include:

• Evaluating teaching
• Teaching awards in research universities
  
• Individual inquiry, collaborative investigation, and collective scholarship
  
• The scholarship of teaching and learning and focused assessments
  
• Supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning at liberal arts colleges
  
• Grounded theory research in faculty development
  
• Assessment of a faculty learning community program
  
• Stereotype threat
  
• Inclusive teaching resources for science, technology, engineering, and math
  
• Marketing plans for faculty development
  
• Faculty development at small and liberal arts colleges
  
• The importance of the faculty status for faculty developers
  
• Co-teaching as a faculty development model
  
• Promoting learning-focused teaching
  
• Team mentoring
  
• A research-based rubric for developing statements of teaching philosophy
  
• Meeting the challenges of integrative learning
  
• The teaching resource portfolio
  
• Reflecting and writing about our teaching
  
• Using technology for teaching in higher education