Professional Development Opportunities for Faculty
Communities of Practice
The CAE facilitates the formation of various communities of practice across campus. These informal communities include teaching circles, writing circles, and mentoring circles, all of which are intended to assist in building networks and help individuals meet their teaching and scholarship goals.
Faculty Leadership Fellows
CAE's Leadership Development program builds campus expertise and cultivates campus leadership for teaching and learning. Fellows gain hands-on experience through ongoing CAE leadership roles in mentoring, campus partnerships and collaborations, sustained learning communities, integrative teaching and learning, engaged teaching and scholarship, strategic planning, grant writing, assessment, conference and event planning and management, SoTL research and publishing and other CAE endeavors.
New Faculty Mentor Program
Every year the CAE sponsors a new faculty mentoring program in which incoming faculty members are paired with tenured colleagues. Mentors are selected from outside the new faculty member’s department in consultation with the department chair and dean. Goals of the Mentoring Program are to help new faculty: (a) meet and network with other faculty and staff; (b) become familiar with university culture, and resources; and (c) adjust to the new environment and become active members of the university community.
Organizational Development
The CAE is available for group consultations on a variety of topics about faculty, instructional (course and curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation), and organizational development (focus on the facilitation and implementation of institutional strategic initiatives).
