Transforming departmental culture: Empowering a department through appreciative inquiry

This article outlines an appreciative inquiry (AI) into a departmental professional development process and describes the resulting implementation of an appreciative peer evaluation meeting as one part of the new professional development process. Using AI, a departmental faculty development committe...

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Main Authors: Kerry K Robinson, Michele A Parker, Symphony D Oxendine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing Services 2022-11-01
Series:To Improve the Academy
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/594/
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