To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development is an electronic journal that seeks to advance excellence in research and practice in educational development. Access to each peer-reviewed volume of To Improve the Academy is provided to current POD members as a benefit of membership.
The January 2017 issue is publicly available here.
Strategic Goals
To Improve the Academy endeavors
- to reflect the diverse community of faculty, staff, and administrators who contribute to the rigor and improvement of teaching and learning in higher education
- to shape the conversation and drive inquiry regarding the scholarship of educational development
- to support innovation in scholarship, research, practice, and the discipline of educational development itself
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development is part of the Wiley Online Library.
Gary Hawkins, Editor
Associate Dean for Faculty
Warren Wilson College
ghawkins@warren-wilson.edu
Brian Smentkowski, Associate Editor
Director, Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE)
Queens University of Charlotte
smentkowskib@queens.edu
Authors & Reviewers
For full author guidelines, please visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2334-4822/homepage/ForAuthors.html
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To sign up to serve as a peer reviewer, please visit: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toimprovetheacademy
Please note that the submission site (ScholarOne) will ask you to create an account prior to submitting your manuscript or setting yourself up as reviewer.
Publication History & Citation Note: To Improve the Academy was published as a printed, edited book with the title, To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development (Jossey-Bass) until 2013, when it moved to an electronic journal with a revised title, To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (Wiley). Articles published when it was a print publication (i.e. 2013/Volume 32 and earlier) are cited as book chapters, and those published after 2013/Volume 33 are cited as journal articles.
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