About To Improve the Academy
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.
To Improve the Academy is published by Michigan Publishing Services (MPS), an open-access division of the University of Michigan.
We are in the process of moving our entire backfile to the new platform. The entire history of TIA will be available online and for free, in one spot. The PDFs of each article will be entirely searchable and screen-reader accessible.
Lindsay Bernhagen, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Editor
Michael S. Palmer, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Associate Co-Editor
Lindsay Wheeler, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Associate Co-Editor
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
Submission Guidelines are available here.
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.