P reparing Future Faculty (PFF) goes beyond teacher-training programs to develop a comprehensive academic career training mechanism. Originally founded in the mid-1990s and since implemented at over 200 U.S. academic institutions, the PFF program assumes that the training of future faculty is a professional responsibility--one that must be taken on by individuals, departments, and disciplinary as...
After taking a teaching class and working to develop lectures to bridge the lab experiments and the general class (see Part 1), we postdocs enrolled in the University of Alabama, Birmingham, pilot Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program began to find our rhythm. It became a weekly routine. The laboratory coordinator and TAs would meet to discuss the classes for next week, we would prepare course m...
