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.