The Consortium's Faculty Development Committee's mission is to support and promote the professional growth of faculty, teaching staff, adjunct faculty and graduate students in their roles as teachers and scholars. The goals of the FDC include:
- Building faculty teaching skills through professional development events shared among institutions
- Delivering a cross-institutional Certificate in College Teaching Program targeted to participants from within and outside Consortium member institutions
- Sharing expertise across campuses so as to strengthen the faculty development programs at individual campuses
- Facilitating the development of a support network for faculty across Consortium Institutions.
Over the years, the Faculty Development Committee has hosted numerous successful events devoted to improving faculty teaching and enhancing student learning. Among those have been:
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Creating a Campus-wide Learning Experience
An interactive presentation on teaching that promotes learning across campus - in the classroom, library, laboratory, cafeteria and residence halls
(Workshop: 02/23/07)
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Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Editor, The Teaching Professor
Professor, Teaching & Learning, Penn State-Berks
Author of Learner Centered Teaching
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Achieving Greater Expectations by Making Excellence Inclusive
A discussion on how to draw on the diversity of our classrooms and communities as a resource to develop engaged, informed and responsible learners
(Workshop: 03/31/06)
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Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, PhD
Vice President of Education & Institutional Renewal
Association of American Colleges & Universities
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Linking Cooperative Activities to the Research on Learning
(Workshop: 04/15/07)
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Barbara J. Millis, PhD
Director, Excellence in Teaching Program
University of Nevada-Reno
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- Learning to Make a Difference: Making Learning Styles Work for You
- Being a Success in the Large Lecture Format: A Reconsideration of the Large Lecture as a Learning Environment
- Making Better Use of Student Group Work
- Strategies for Improving Testing & Grading
(Workshop Series: 09/23-26/03)
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Neil Fleming
Internationally noted educator and faculty developer from New Zealand
Author of best-selling educational textbooks and published widely in faculty development journals of major universities
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