Program Description:

The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program is a national project to better prepare graduate students and post-docs for the multiple roles they may be asked to serve as faculty members in a number of distinct types of academic institutions – research or comprehensive universities, liberal arts or community colleges, private schools or public ones. The project brings together faculty members, administrators, post-docs, and graduate students from research universities and their colleagues at partner institutions in an effort to future faculty students with a broader range of educational experiences than would be available to them at their home university. Duke University will participate in PFF for the twelfth year in 2003-2004.

Evidence:

See report by A. Leigh DeNeef, Associate Dean, The Graduate School, Duke University
“The Preparing Future Faculty Program: What Difference Does It Make?”
http://www.aacu-edu.org/pff/PFFpublications/what_difference/index.cfm

Additional Information:

Cluster institutions include: Durham Technical Community College, Elon College, Guilford College, Meredith College, North Carolina Central University

National website: http://www.preparing-faculty.org/