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.
President's Roundtable: Enhancing Collaboration with Community Faculty, Thursday, March 21 (5–6 p.m.), via Zoom
President Arthur would like to strengthen the engagement of community faculty at Metro State, particularly around the strategic planning process that will be initiated this spring and extends to other opportunities for engagement. This roundtable is an opportunity for open, collaborative dialogue between community faculty members and the Metro President.
You are invited to bring your insights, experiences, and suggestions to the conversation in order to strengthen the collaboration between the university leadership and community faculty. Please let us know if you are available to join us for this important roundtable. We look forward to your participation and the valuable contributions you will bring to this collaborative discussion.
Click here if you wish to register for the event
Spring Faculty Conference, April 6, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Theme: Emerging Opportunities for Advancing Teaching and Learning
We are pleased to welcome Kao Kalia Yang for the keynote address at this spring’s conference. A Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer, her work crosses audiences and genres. She is the award-winning author of the memoirs, The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, and many others. Her new book, Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life, chronicles her mother’s experiences as a refugee making the trip from Laos to the US.
The spring faculty conference is the most extensive professional development opportunity at Metro State.
Colleagues, register to join us! We would love to see you again!!
WHAT: Spring Faculty Conference
Kao Kalia Yang, Keynote Speaker
Workshops, workshops, and more workshops!
Breakfast, Lunch, and Awards
WHEN: Saturday, April 6, 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
WHERE: In-person, Saint Paul Campus, Auditorium (and breakout rooms) OR
Virtual attendance via Zoom
Click here if you wish to register for virtual mode or Click here if you wish to register for in-person mode