Define 'Just Fine'

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I’ve really appreciated the discussions that have taken place under my last two posts on Faculty Development. But I really want to address one comment about how “[m]ost teaching faculty members get along just fine [within their departments] without the whole apparatus of ‘faculty developers’ wasting their time.” I asked, and received no response, on what “just fine” really means. Because I have met a ton of faculty, both through my job, through social media, and through blogging, for whom this would be a very questionable statement. Read more...