Fifty Years of How and Why Faculty Teach

In 1963, the House of Delegates of the American Association of Dental Schools recommended that all dental schools constitute a committee on teaching. That same year, the Dean appointed a committee on teaching for the Indiana University School of Dentistry to develop educational programs for faculty. In spring of 1964, one of their first acts was to evaluate “the attitude of our faculty on many of our teaching problems” with a survey. In fall of 1965, the teaching committee put on it’s first annual Teaching Conference for faculty, an event that is still held today, and presented highlights of the survey. In fall of 2021, a slightly updated version of the 1964 Faculty Attitudes Toward Teaching survey was given to faculty. This poster presents highlights comparing 1964 and 2021 responses