Mission
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) supports community and resident faculty in innovative teaching, scholarship, and service to promote transformational student learning in a diverse, antiracist, urban learning community.
Vision
The CFD will support a faculty culture of authentic collaboration, anti-racist instruction and scholarship, and curricular innovation in support of sustained student engagement, educational justice, and social transformation.
Values
- Antiracist teaching and scholarship: To support all faculty in interrupting and overcoming structural and individual systems that perpetuate racist disparities in teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Authenticity: To be open and honest in all actions of the CFD, including communication, relationships, and practices.
- Community Engagement: to support scholarship, teaching, and service that engages with the knowledge and practices of metro-area communities and organizations, working to build authentic, collectively-beneficial partnerships.
- Educational Justice: To work to eliminate racial, gender, sexual, and all other socio-economic injustices that structure higher education, while valuing the voices and knowledge of those outside higher education.
- Experimentation: To support the success of all students, we emphasize reflective, iterative processes and the ongoing development of new methods and modes of course design, instruction, assessment, and scholarship, including risk taking, embracing both failure and success in order to reimagine the limits of effective education.
- Relationships and collaboration: To bridge disciplinary divides and connect faculty across units and academic rank to build a collaborative, mutually supportive campus culture for the benefit of underserved, post-traditional students.
News and events
Educator Learning Communities
We are thrilled to announce these groups early in January, 2024. They allow you to sign up to meet with colleagues during the semester on a topic of your choice, including culturally responsive teaching, improving online instruction, anti-racist assessment, and many more. Watch your email for that announcement and registration link!
Tuesday Morning Writing Group, 10–11 a.m., via Zoom
If you have a writing project that you are looking to make headway on, please join us for some shared-accountability! For these virtual meetings, we use the "pomodoro technique"—two timed 25-minute writing blocks with a 10-minute conversation break in between. This is a great way to get some writing done before the week's obligations start crowding out writing time!
For the next several weeks, we will be meeting via Zoom most Tuesdays at 10 a.m., starting January 16. Please join via Zoom, meeting ID: 942 2478 9425, passcode: CFD.
Spring Faculty Conference, April 6, 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., in-person or virtual
We invite your proposals for the in-person or virtual conference, an opportunity to share important knowledge and practice. Additional details and program applications available HERE. Submissions due by February 12.
Important: This year’s conference is innovative as we seek proposals for either in-person workshops or virtual workshops in order to accommodate all stakeholders. Your proposal will either be virtual or in-person; there is no hyflex for workshops. When you click the proposal link below, the first question will ask if you are presenting in-person or virtually. You will have the option of a 25-minute workshop or 50-minute workshop.