Faculty Development has a full range of activities planned to help you sharpen your teaching skills, learn to use technology, network with faculty peers.

ITLE’s Early Career Faculty Development (ECFD) program is a set of 14 two-hour workshops initiated by the Provost and the ITLE Faculty Committee. All ECFD workshops are facilitated by experienced and well-respected faculty members from across the colleges. The workshops attracted over 460 attendees in 2006-2007 and over 470 in 2008 - 2009. Although these workshops are targeted at early career faculty, the program is highly recommended for ALL faculty members. 

To encourage faculty members to take advantage of the professional development opportunities, the Provost and the ITLE Advisory Committee have recently decided to issue certificates to faculty members who regularly attend the ECFD program. Here are the details:

• A certificate signed by the Provost will be issued to faculty members who attend at least 10 out of the 14 ECFD workshops.
• The certificate would be sent to either the Dean or Department Head to acknowledge the effort to enhance  teaching excellence and professional development. They, in turn, would hand them out at an appropriate event where the other faculty members are present as well.
• From Fall 2009, this program is available in a three-year circle. For those who were unable to come, presentations were streamed and posted online within one or two days after the workshop. However, watching videos does not count for attendence of the workshop. In addition, live videoconferencing is available for one branch campus.  Click here to see a few past presentations.