Faculty Development

Faculty Development provides relevant and thought-provoking programming to support all faculty in their teaching, scholarship, service, and leadership journeys. Programming and partnerships are informed by equity-mindedness, technology-enriched best practices, and data-informed inquiry. The Faculty Development team seeks a supportive culture of shared power that engages with the well-being and success of both faculty and students.

The team, consisting of a faculty director, faculty fellows, and instructional designers, develops and implements programs for faculty success, such as New Faculty Foundations, institutes (e.g., eLearning), short workshop series, and semester- or year-long Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) on various topics. Other activities include hosting keynote speakers, workshops (either campuswide, college-level, or department-tailored), and writing productivity communities for faculty to advance their scholarship. For those who cannot attend events, self-paced options include (1) a Teaching Toolkit with evidence-based teaching practices, including CSUN faculty best practices, and (2) multiple Get Up to Speed course options in Course Design, Online Teaching, Transparency in Teaching, Unconscious Bias, Active Learning, HyFlex, and more to come.