The Breadth of Current Faculty Development: Practitioners' Perspectives: Teaching and Learning, Number 133: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, ...

Professional development for faculty has been growing for decades in teaching and learning centers. In the twenty-first century, higher education has entered a startling transformation, and pedagogical philosophy and practice are changing along with the rest of the academy, making faculty development that much more important. Each chapter in this volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning identifies particular areas of opportunity, and although the authors recognize that not every initiative suggested can be implemented by all institutions circumstances such as institutional mission, available resources, and governance issues will dictate that—it is their hope that every reader will be able to glean details that might provide a spark or fan a flame on campus. As educators themselves, McKee, Johnson, Ritchie, and Tew invite you to consider the challenges, explore the possibilities, and join them on the journey.

C. William McKee and Mitzy Johnson are the authors of The Breadth of Current Faculty Development: Practitioners’ Perspectives: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 133, published by Wiley.