WWW Resources

• Reference for the Development of Rubrics http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
• Have faculty ever asked you about other publication opportunities in the scholarship of teaching? Indiana U. has links to over 150 teaching-related journals for a wide variety of disciplines at http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/SOTL.
• The online Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) is a great source of info, and it is easy to send articles to colleagues via email. Although some of the articles are publicly accessible, you’ll need a subscription to gain full access to the online Chronicle.
• POD, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (http://www.podnetwork.org) is a great organization and many CSU faculty development directors attend their annual fall meeting. POD also has an active listserv.
• Rick Reiss at Stanford maintains the Tomorrow’s Professor listserv (http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings.html), which is another great source of information and which provides almost daily extracts from resources in higher education that are easy to forward to interested colleagues.
• AAHE (http://www.aahe.org) provides outstanding conferences and resources. Many CSU colleagues have attended their Faculty Roles and Rewards conferences (http://www.aahe.org/initiatives/facultyroles.htm). Their assessment conference also is outstanding. Another great organization is the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U; http://www.aacu-edu.org), and their publication, Greater Expectations is a wonderful review of what a liberal education should be. It’s available online at http://greaterexpectations.org.
• The CSU publishes an online newsletter (http://www.calstate.edu/CSULeader) to help you keep current on CSU happenings. You can add your name to the distribution list.
• If you’re going to provide support for accreditation efforts, WASC (http://www.wascweb.org/senior) has some good materials online, including their 2001 Standards and evidence guide.
• The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) has some great resources, http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/index.htm.
• MERLOT, started within the CSU, has grown into an international repository of Web-based instructional materials: http://www.merlot.org. Also see MERLOT TWO, http://www.merlot.org/Home.po?discipline=TWO, that focuses on Teaching Well Online.
• The National Teaching & Learning Forum, http://www.ntlf.com, has some very useful articles.
• Some publishers that specialize in faculty development and teaching-related materials are: Anker [http://www.ankerpub.com], Atwood [http://www.atwoodpublishing.com], Jossey-Bass [http://www.josseybass.com], Magna [http://www.magnapubs.com], and Stylus [http://styluspub.com].
• The Campus Compact Reader, a no-cost, online journal focusing on service learning, is published three times a year. Subscription info is available at http://www.compact.org/reader/subscriptions.html.