This book offers a game plan for developing faculty expertise in student success pedagogies across disciplines through hundreds of supported faculty learning communities (FLC). Using the FLC as a foundation and offering support and training for individual faculty moderators/facilitators, the program establishes systemwide conversations around selected topics and pedagogies. The topics have been selected as evidence-based practices that can be used across the disciplines to inform faculty and support student success in undergraduate coursework. These pedagogies include: transparency in learning and teaching (TiLT), inclusive pedagogy, course redesign, mindset, High Impact Practices, strategies from neuroscience, Small Teaching, and SoTL. The program is set in motion by nominations for facilitators (Chancellor's Learning Scholars, CLS) from institutional academic leaders, an individual application, and confirmation. Training for the CLS is provided by the system's Office of Faculty Development and supported by directors of the institutional teaching centers. The formation of each FLC, the identification of course products and changes emerging from the FLC, and the full story of each FLC is contained in the annual report. All told, the program has involved 2500 faculty and thousands of course changes. Finally, the book offers evaluation of three types-by USG office, by system's teaching center directors, and by the analysis of the final reports submitted each year.
Jeffery Galle is associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, faculty development, for the University System of Georgia. As an English professor, an administrator, and an author whose work focuses on innovative teaching, Galle has derived immense joy in creative work with students, staff, and fellow faculty. Denise Pinette Domizi is director of faculty development for the University System of Georgia. She works to promote and support innovation and research in teaching and learning at the twenty-six public colleges and universities in the state of Georgia.
Preface: Jeffery Galle Introduction: Jeffery Galle Chapter 1: Chancellor's Learning Scholars: Pedagogy and Faculty Learning Communities Jeffery Galle Chapter 2: Implementing a System-Wide Faculty Development Program Denise Pinette Domizi Chapter 3: Successes and Challenges for CTLs Partnering with a System-wide Faculty Learning Community Program: Three Case Studies Jamie Landau, Anna Higgins-Harrell, Ren Denton Chapter 4: Representative Reports: The Products and Outcomes of the First Two Years Jeffery Galle Chapter 5: Uses of Lessons Learned for Larger Audiences Jeffery Galle
