An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants. Contents include: • Professional development for geographically dispersed faculty • Implementing a learning consortium for communication and change • Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment • What educational developers need to know about faculty-artists • Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty • Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers • Mentoring in higher education • Tough-love consulting in order to effect change • Research on the impact of educational development • Examining effective faculty practice • Insights on millennial students • Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers • Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation terminology • Questions about student ratings • Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online instruction • Supporting international faculty • Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and learning • Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial inclusion • The truth about students' capacity for multitasking • Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter backchannel • Designing active learning with flexible technology
