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This volume describes Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) programs in the social sciences and humanities and documents their feasibility and desirability. It summarizes the lessons learned in the PFF initiative. The chapters are: (1) "A New Vision for Doctoral Preparation"; (2) "Strategies for Establishing a PFF Program"; (3) "Content of PFF Programs"; (4) "Disciplinary Society Activities and Reflections of Executives"; (5) "Outcomes of PFF Programs"; and (6) "Challenges for the Future: Changing the Culture of Faculty Preparation." Three appendixes contain information about disciplinary societies' strategies to sustain PFF programs, faculty leaders and partner institutions, and the University of Nebraska mentoring contract. (Contains 60 references.) (SLD).

Efforts to support and enrich faculty work—particularly in a changing context—are critically important to faculty members, institutional leaders, and higher education itself. This book surveys faculty development from its beginnings, summarizes the challenges and pressures now facing developers and higher education as a whole, and proposes an agenda for the future of faculty development. Based on a study of nearly 500 faculty developers from all institutional types, this book offers a vision of what the field might become, addressing several key issues such as the structural variations among faculty development programs; the goals, purposes, and models that guide and influence program development; and the top challenges facing faculty members, institutions, and faculty development programs. Contents include: The Evolution of Faculty Development A Portrait of Current Faculty Development: Personnel and Programs Influences on Developers and Programs Current Issues Addressed by Faculty Development Services Future Priorities for Faculty Development Future Directions for Faculty Development: Open-Ended Responses Faculty Development in the Age of the Network

This guide is based on a project titled "Shaping the Preparation of Future Science and Mathematics Faculty," a 4-year effort supported by the National Science Foundation. This volume contains lessons learned by faculty members, graduate students, and academic administrators who established innovative programs as part of the initiative. The chapters are: (1) "A New Vision of Graduate Preparation for Science and Mathematics Faculty"; (2) "Strategies for Establishing a PFF Program"; (3) "Content of PFF Program sin the Sciences and Mathematics"; (4) "Outcomes of PFF Programs"; and (5) "Prospects for the Future." Appendixes discuss "Graduate Students and Postdoctorates from Phase 3 PFF Disciplines" and "PFF3 Faculty Leaders and Partner Institutions." (Contains 62 references.) (SLD).