Faculty Development: What about Administrators/

Abstract

The investment in the professoriate is understand able: most college level teachers today are tenured; most were hired and promoted on the basis of research and scholarly endeavors rather than teaching ability. Today's declining enrollment has awakened us to the need for competitive programs and quality teaching. To attract and retain students, instruction must be good; students in the 80's are not satisfied with merely sitting at the feet of scholars with great minds. Faculty development characteristically focuses on one of two areas: improvement of instruction or extending a knowledge base. Sometimes this latter is called "retool