To Improve the Academy Volume 26 An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants. Contents include: * Evaluating teaching * Teaching awards in research universities * Individual inquiry, collaborative investigation, and collective scholarship * The scholarship of teaching and learning and focused assessments * Supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning at liberal arts colleges * Grounded theory research in faculty development * Assessment of a faculty learning community program * Stereotype threat * Inclusive teaching resources for science, technology, engineering, and math * Marketing plans for faculty development * Faculty development at small and liberal arts colleges * The importance of the faculty status for faculty developers * Co-teaching as a faculty development model * Promoting learning-focused teaching * Team mentoring * A research-based rubric for developing statements of teaching philosophy * Meeting the challenges of integrative learning * The teaching resource portfolio * Reflecting and writing about our teaching * Using technology for teaching in higher education