5: KEEPING THE FIRE BURNING: STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT SENIOR FACULTY. (10th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zeig, Michael J.; Baldwin, Roger G.
• Is Part Of: To improve the academy. Volume 32:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 88
• Publication Date: 2017-10-10
• Subjects: College teachers -- In-service training -- United States -- Periodicals; College teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Planning -- Periodicals; Lesgeven; Kwaliteitsverbetering; Hoger onderwijs; College teachers -- In-service training; College teaching; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; Universities and colleges -- Planning; United States; Periodicals; 378.1250973
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2013.tb00699.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1065-237X

Abstract

Abstract : Recent reports indicate that at some colleges and universities, as many as one in three professors are age sixty or older. This increase in senior faculty raises the question of what institutions do to support this large and important cohort. Historically, faculty development programs have focused on early‐career faculty, with less attention paid to more seasoned professors. Based on a national web‐based investigation, this chapter reviews the strategies some institutions have implemented to support senior faculty. It also provides recommendations for how senior faculty and their administrator colleagues can provide new meaning and purpose to this phase of academic life.