"If you pit a good person against a bad system, the system will win every time." --Geary Rummler Is it possible to raise the teaching competence of an entire faculty quickly and cost effectively? Now, the answer is YES The graduate training most faculty receive focuses on conveying the content of their discipline-with an eye to teaching them how to produce research. If an individual receives any training in how to teach, it is usually as a teaching assistant-and often less than holistically. Most newly minted instructors arrive on campus and are observed by someone who is senior to them-but...