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Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change
written by Joel C. Corbo, Daniel L. Reinholz, Melissa H. Dancy, and Noah D. Finkelstein
We describe a new type of faculty working group, a Departmental Action Team (DAT), that forms one component of a larger strategy towards enacting cultural change in higher education. DATs empower a team of faculty members within a single department to make focused, sustainable change in their department. DATs focus on departmental development, supporting faculty in designing and implementing structures to address an educational problem of mutual interest and broad-scale importance to their department (rather than trying to "solve" the problem themselves). This contrasts other faculty development efforts like Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs), which support the individual development of faculty from different departments through reflection on separate education projects. We contextualize the DAT model through a case study of a group that is focused on improving gender and racial equity among their undergraduate majors.
Physics Education Research Conference 2015
Part of the PER Conference series
College Park, MD: July 29-30, 2015
Pages 91-94
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J. Corbo, D. Reinholz, M. Dancy, and N. Finkelstein, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13844&DocID=4262).
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J. Corbo, D. Reinholz, M. Dancy, and N. Finkelstein, Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, 2015, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13844&DocID=4262>.
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Corbo, J., Reinholz, D., Dancy, M., & Finkelstein, N. (2015, July 29-30). Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13844&DocID=4262
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Corbo, J, D. Reinholz, M. Dancy, and N. Finkelstein. "Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2015, College Park, MD, July 29-30, 2015. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13844&DocID=4262 (accessed 25 April 2024).
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Corbo, Joel, Daniel Reinholz, Melissa Dancy, and Noah Finkelstein. "Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change." Physics Education Research Conference 2015. College Park, MD: 2015. 91-94 of PER Conference. 25 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13844&DocID=4262>.
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