WCC Executive Director publishes article in the Journal of Faculty Development

Two College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) faculty served as guest co-editors of a special section of the September 2019 issue of the Journal of Faculty Development. The special section, “Faculty Development for First-Year Experience, Part II,” included a co-authored article by Kevin Dvorak, Ph.D., CAHSS Professor and Executive Director of the NSU Writing and Communication Center, along with Molly Scanlon Ph.D., CAHSS Associate Professor, and Judith Slapak-Barski, Ed.D., Instructional Technology and Design Specialist at the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography

Scanlon and Dvorak cowrote, “The Importance of Faculty Development Programs for Teaching First-Year Seminar Courses” in the first part of the special section issue of the Journal of Faculty Development May 2019.

 Their article, “Common Practices for First-Year Experience Faculty Development,” focuses on First-Year Experience (FYE) faculty development and recognizes “the best practices for FYE faculty development that can help FYW practitioners strengthen programs or build new sustainable models for success” (53).  Each of the eight practices are explained and reflect the experiences of FYE administrators and faculty. These practices included build a cultivate faculty buy-in, leverage technology, understand the student population, among others, that assist to further develop and improve existing FYE programs.

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