Ensure computer literacy as a requirement. Reward junior faculty for teaching in the tenure process, with acommensurate reduction in the emphasis on research. Then, oncetenured, give them the freedom to research and use it as the basisfor promotion. This can set good habits of teaching early in thecareer and then reward mastery of research later. Need to capitalize on and reinforce OU's existing pro-teachingculture.
Some departments abuse the right to use graduate students asteachers.
No graduate student should be dropped into the classroomwithout adequate training or without adequate skills. PhD studentsshould be credentialled through an apprenticeship, workshops onteaching, review of a videotaped teaching experience, etc. As aninstitution we should emphasize to doctoral students that teaching ishalf of their future career and we should prepare them for excellencein that aspect of their futures just as thoroughly as we do for theirresearch. We should learn from the experiences of the research flagships. They are losing students who are sick of having their educations playsecond fiddle to the research objectives of the university.