ABOUT FTAD
Faculty & TA Development (FTAD) exists to help faculty and TAs excel in teaching and experience the satisfaction that results from teaching well. FTAD supports teaching at Ohio State by providing information, consultation, and event coordination.
HISTORY
FTAD can trace its roots to the Instructional Development and Evaluation unit of the Office of Learning Resources, which was created in 1980 to add instructional consultation services to a media services unit. In 1987, the unit became Faculty and TA Development in the Center for Teaching Excellence, a move designed to highlight the teaching emphasis of the mission. Since that time, the unit has retained the same name although the parent organization became the Center for Instructional Resources in 1993 and part of 1994, when it reported to Academic Technology Services. In 1994, the unit was separated from media and computing services and assumed a dual reportingline to the Office of Academic Affairs and the College of Education. Reporting lines were streamlined in 2005 and the unit now reports only to the Office of Academic Affairs.
NATIONAL SERVICE & INVOLVEMENT
FTAD staff consult with other institutions on college teaching and learning and on faculty development. They present at conferences on these topics and are involved in professional associations that deal with college teaching and faculty development, such as the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education and the American Association for Higher Education, International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, and the American Association for Higher Education.
FTAD has been involved in several national projects on the improvement of college teaching, such as the Preparing Future Faculty Project and the National Consortium to Prepare Graduate Students as College Teachers, and both the Research University Consortium for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Scholarship of Multicultural Teaching and Learning clusters of the AAHE/Carnegie Campus Program.