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Questions for interested institutions, faculty, and administrators to ask themselves are:
Does my school value faculty learning?
Does it value faculty professional involvement?
Does it see increased and current content knowledge as important to quality teaching and learning?
Do I want faculty to be enthusiastic about what they do?
Do faculty and institution want to improve the quality of scholarly work already being produced?
If so, a scholarship mentoring project will be beneficial for the institution. The activities supported by the Faculty Forum are valuable to both faculty member and employing institution (college or university). Scholarship improves education quality as academic involvement in professors' respective disciplines and organizations improves and increases their content knowledge and professional currency, and reduces teacher burnout. Faculty publishing and professional presentations also improve an institution's "resume" to outside evaluators, and increases student respect and satisfaction.
Faculty Forum Fit by Kinds of Faculty
The Faculty Forum is valuable to all faculty that wish to improve faculty scholarship - whether beginners in the field who need to know simply how to do scholarship, or experienced scholars who want collegial support, peer feedback, and constructive criticism on their work before outside submission. The Faculty Forum activities -- writing workshops, in-house conference, leads and networking -- provide essential help to faculty at various stages of scholarship expertise for greater success and refinement of their work. See Why the Faculty Forum? for more.
Faculty Forum Fit by Kinds of Institutions
Faculty scholarship can meet the needs of a variety of institutions, including those who see themselves as primarily "teaching oriented." While some universities, primarily research universities, already value scholarship for scholarship's sake, the majority of other institutions can benefit from faculty scholarship as well due to scholarship's positive effect on teaching and faculty overall.
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