An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), this 25th anniversary edition of 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. This book is divided into five sections: -Educational development and the sociological imagination -Paradigms -Educational development and the scholarship of teaching and learning -Instructional and curricular development -Faculty careers