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60-minute recording of live online seminar available in CD or transcript format. Includes program handouts. By participating, you'll learn: Meet the presenters: Judith M. Gappa is a recently retired professor of higher education administration from Purdue University. Between 1991 and 1998 she was the vice president for human relations at Purdue University. Across her career she has published widely on faculty careers including a book (co-authored with David Leslie) on part time faculty, The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-Timers in Higher Education. Ann E. Austin is the Mildred B. Erickson Distinguished Professor of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University. Her research interests include faculty careers, roles and professional development; reform in graduate education and the improvement of teaching and learning. She has several co-authored publications including a book on ways to enrich the preparation of future faculty and another on the future of faculty development. Before working as an independent consultant to colleges and universities, Andrea G. Trice was a faculty member at Purdue University. She has also held administrative appointments at Purdue, Northwestern and the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research work focuses on faculty roles, foreign-born faculty and international students. The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player. Our CDs are not compatible with Macintosh computer systems.
• How the changing context for higher education is impacting the nature of faculty work
• How important and necessary it is to respond the changes that affect faculty work
• Those elements that are essential parts of successful, satisfying academic workplaces
• What policies and practices institutions need to implement in order to recruit and retain those faculty best able to help a college or university realize its mission
Conducting the interview will be Dr. Maryellen Weimer, who has edited The Teaching Professor newsletter since 1987 and taught communication courses at Penn State Berks, where she is a professor emerita of Teaching and Learning. In 2005 she won Penn State’s Milton S. Eisenhower award for distinguished teaching. Dr. Weimer has consulted with over 300 colleges and universities on instructional issues and regularly keynotes national meetings and regional conferences. Dr. Weimer’s Ph.D. is in Speech Communication from Penn State.
