First, Congress needs to reauthorize the Nurse Education Act, which focuses on faculty development, geriatric training and other work force improvement programs.
Terman's proposal followed Heald's, but focused on faculty and student research more than contract research.
As an activist, Sotomayor focused on faculty hiring and curriculum, since Princeton did not have a single full-time Latino professor nor any class on Latin American studies.
As such, longitudinal research focusing on faculty development and healthcare outcomes, combined with a more detailed exploration of the determinants of performance on certification and licensing examinations, are topics for future study.
With course loads that range from two to four classes a semester and without teaching assistants to help with the grading, smaller public universities and comprehensive colleges expect faculty to focus on students and teaching when classes are in session.
Contemporary literature regarding scholarship emphasizes broader definitions of scholarship among university faculty, usually with an implicit focus on university faculty with doctoral degrees.
In contrast to the SI focus on training faculty from research universities, STAR's target was faculty from community colleges, 2-yr campuses, and public and private research universities.
Adjustments are needed, and Seton Hall's decision to focus on untenured faculty might appear to make sense.
Developers should acknowledge this and focus on helping faculty to navigate the difference between productive and unproductive changes, by using change agents or coming up with written recommendations.
This study addresses aspects of this gap by building on a growing set of studies that focus on characterizing faculty's knowledge of EBIPs, their instructional practices, as well as their perceived barriers to instructional innovation.
