Build a Shared Vocabulary and Deepen Our Collective Understanding of the Field

This year we will do a group reading of relevant sections of Coming in from the Margins: Faculty Development’s Emerging Organizational Development Role in Institutional Change by Connie M. Schroeder. Schroeder conducted a study to address questions regarding the current and future role of professional development within institutions facing significant institutional change agendas (sound familiar, anyone?); in her study, she explored Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs) positioned “in the center” as well as at the margins of institutional missions and change. In this book, she argues that TLCs must broaden and expand to include approaches that impact more than one faculty member at a time.

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