Empower Your Faculty to Support Student Success
Higher education is in a crisis with enrollment down and costs up. Retaining students and ensuring they succeed has never been more important. Many for-profit companies offer expensive solutions for student success, but few of these focus on learning. Rather than looking outward for solutions, we can activate the expertise of our faculty to effect deep change around learning and student success.
Your Faculty Are Your Greatest Underutilized Asset
You already have the expertise you need to enact deep change. You can leverage that expertise through our tested faculty development method.
Transforming Curriculum and Teaching | Jennifer Kinney, Faculty Writing Fellow at Miami University
The Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Model
Miami's Howe Center for Writing Excellence has a proven method for activating faculty teacher/scholars: Howe Faculty Writing Fellows. This theory-and-expertise-based approach engages teams of faculty from across disciplines in sense-making over time in order to help them create deep change projects in and across programs.
2. Learn a Method to Leverage Your Faculty Expertise to Enact Deep Change
3. Pilot the Method at Your Institution
Resources for Learning More
Learn more about the Faculty Writing Fellows program and how you can implement it at your home institution.
Empower your expert faculty
to support student success.
Contact Dr. Elizabeth Wardle
Elizabeth Wardle created the Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program at Miami in 2017. She has studied, written, and presented about it ever since, along with her colleagues. She also frequently speaks around the country on this change-making heuristic.
Dr. Elizabeth Wardle
Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence
