Identity Development of New Faculty Developers in an Area With Faculty Shortages

• In Event: 52.045 - Instructor Perspectives and Experiences Regarding Education in the Professions

Abstract

This qualitative study analyzed the identity development of faculty who participated in a faculty development program in a university with an extreme faculty shortage. They assumed the role of developers delivering an education course and workshops. Their educator identity evolved in the two years covered by the study and for some the faculty developer identity was incorporated into this new identity. They were motivated to do faculty development by the desire for mastery, a sense of duty, purpose and satisfaction and the relationships with other developers. These developers changed their teaching, became respected resources to others at the university and changed the institutional educational culture.

Authors

• Patricia S. O'Sullivan, University of California - San Francisco

• David M. Irby, University of California - San Francisco

• Jessica Beard, University of California - San Francisco

• Charles Mkony