An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Contents include:

• Professional development for geographically dispersed faculty
• Implementing a learning consortium for communication and change
• Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment
• What educational developers need to know about faculty-artists
• Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty
• Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers
• Mentoring in higher education
• Tough-love consulting in order to effect change
• Research on the impact of educational development
• Examining effective faculty practice
• Insights on millennial students
• Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers
• Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation terminology
• Questions about student ratings
• Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online instruction
• Supporting international faculty
• Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and learning
• Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial inclusion
• The truth about students' capacity for multitasking
• Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter backchannel
• Designing active learning with flexible technology