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Teaching Excellence: How Faculty Guided Change at a Research University
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 24, Number 4, Summer 2001
- pp. 397-415
- 10.1353/rhe.2001.0007
- Article
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This article evaluates one university's efforts to achieve excellence in teaching while simultaneously solidifying its position as a top research institution. Based on the assumption that lasting change requires cultural transformation, the university involved its faculty in a systematic discussion about teaching and used the resulting feedback to alter policy. Faculty reactions, as captured in this case study, could be instructive in guiding instructional reforms at other research universities.