About the FDC:

Faculty Development Center
109 Bruce T. Halle Library
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Email: aavp_fdc@emich.edu
Ph: 734.487.0020 x2111

Donations are made through the EMU Foundation by specifying:
01429 - Bruce K Nelson Faculty Friends Development Fund

About the FDC

What is the Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center (FDC)?
Staff
Faculty Development Advisory Committee (FDAC)
About Our Name

What is the Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center (FDC)?

The FDC provides a centralized service for faculty (full-time and part-time) to support their teaching/learning, research and service.

Functions of the FDC

The FDC is responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating a comprehensive program of support for all instructional faculty across a broad range of professional practice domains:

Enhancing excellence in teaching through demonstrating and assessing significant student learning outcomes
Promoting scholarly inquiry and/or creativity
Providing professional development opportunities, including leadership and organizational development
Incorporating the effective use of technology
Actively promoting and facilitating awareness and sensitivity to issues of culture and diversity and community-building/service activities that support faculty excellence

Guiding Principles for the FDC

The FDC is based on a number of principles of practice that support and guide our actions and decisions. The FDC:

Recognizes and champions faculty in their multiple roles (e.g., as teacher, scholar, professional, community member) and acknowledges the broad range and depth of their varied accomplishments;
Reflects an awareness of the variety in faculty growth and development and offers comprehensive, on-going, developmental, and flexible support programs;
Supports and promotes teaching/learning strategies that promote meaningful, higher-order learning for students, e.g., active or collaborative learning;
Involves faculty in reflection and critical self-evaluation of their academic practices, and assists faculty in transforming their practices into scholarship.
Encourages cross-departmental, school and unit interactions and fosters collaboration among faculty with shared interests and professional development goals;
Creates opportunities for discipline-specific, as well as cross-disciplinary shared learning and experimentation emphasizing transferability of knowledge;
Encourages and appropriately supports faculty in undertaking new roles and responsibilities and in skill development, with emphasis on instructional technology and cultural competence;
Recognizes that individuals who seek our services do so voluntarily;
Maintains confidentiality for all who are served; and
Models actions and practices that are non-judgmental, respectful, trustworthy, collaborative and cooperative.

Staff

Lisa Klopfer
Director

Office: 109 Bruce T. Halle Library
Phone: 734.487.0020 x 2114
Email: lklopfer@emich.edu

Lisa Klopfer is the Interim Director of the Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center for the 2010-11 academic year. She earned a PhD in cultural anthropology (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1994), and a master's degree in Library and Archives (Univ. of Michigan, 2000). Lisa is a tenured member of the faculty in the Library, where she teaches and does research on library-based learning and instruction. Her research projects include libraries and librarianship in India and Japan.

Joe Scazzero
Associate Director of Research

Office: 109-C Bruce T. Halle Library
Phone: 734.487.0020 x 2110
Email: joseph.scazzero@emich.edu

Joseph A. Scazzero is a Professor of Decision Sciences in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Eastern Michigan University . His research interests include experimental design, quality control, and software engineering. His publications have appeared in Communications in Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Information & Management, International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Total Quality Management, and Information Systems Management Journal . His work experience includes the design and analysis of surveys while working at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and serving as a statistician/quality control engineer for Westinghouse on the AWACS radar program. Professor Scazzero received a Ph.D. (Applied Statistics) and M.A. (Statistics) from The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. (Computer Science) from Johns Hopkins University, and A.B. (Mathematics) from Rutgers College.

Student Staff

Office: 109 Bruce T. Halle Library
Phone: 734.487.0020 x 2111
Email: lklopfer@emich.edu

Sam Safford

Graduate Assistant
Music Education Major

Dontaye Caruth

Oboe Performance Major

Constance Clark

Physical Theraphy and Creative Writing Major

Brianna Smith

Political Science Major

Tshering Wangmo

Community Counseling Major

The Faculty Development Advisory Committee (FDAC)

Committee purpose

This Eastern Michigan University Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the Faculty Development Center (FDC) on the vision, strategic plans, needs and programming efforts of the Center.

Roles and Responsibilities are as follows:

Review FDC operations, including:

Programs and services
Administration and leadership
Budget and resources
Priorities and directions

Provide feedback, input and advice on strategic planning decisions, including:

Priorities for services
Utilization of funds
Emphasis in programming
Envisioning and building for the future

Advocate for faculty development in

Departments
Colleges
University committees

Provide expertise in faculty development for

Programs and workshops
Individual consultations
Mentoring programs

Committee Membership

	2007-2008	2008-2009	2009-2010	2010-2011
FDC Director	Karen Busch	Karen Busch	Karen Busch	Lisa Klopfer
FDC Assoc Director			Joe Scazzero	Joe Scazzero
CAS-Science	Gisela Ahlbrant		Natalie Dove	Natalie Dove
CAS-Humanities	Solange Simoes	Solange Simoes	Solange Simoes	Solange Simoes
COE	Linda Polter	Michael McVey	Michael McVey	Michael McVey
COT	Louise Jones	Ron Fulkert	Bob Teehan	Bob Teehan
COB	Kunal Banjeri	Kunal Banjeri	Kunal Banerji	Kunal Banerji
CHHS	April Bigelow	Marilyn Wedenoja	Marilyn Wedenoja	Jayne Yatczak/Debi Silverman
LIBRARY	Susann deVries	Susann deVries	Lisa Klopfer	Paula Storm
EMU Lecturers			Kathryn Ashton-Miller	Kathryn Ashton-Miller
IT			William Shell	William Shell
EPEO			Garrett Whitehead	Garrett Whitehead

About Our Name

Bruce K. Nelson began a long and distinguished career of services at Eastern Michigan University in 1954. He was the director of the EMU lab school and superintendent of Lincoln Schools. He quickly assumed the role of Vice President for Instruction (equivalent to the current Provost position) and served in that capacity for 21 years. During this time, Dr. Nelson played a major role in shaping the academic structure of the University and helped facilitate the creation of the College of Education. He was responsible for registration, advising, and developing expanded class offerings to make more classes available for students.

Dr. Nelson also shepherded the building of the then "new" library, which has now been transformed into the Porter Building. In 1975, Dr. Nelson returned to his professorship in the Department of Educational Leadership. He retired in 1981.

In tribute to Dr. Nelson's work and in particular his devotion to the needs of faculty, the Faculty Development Center was renamed "The Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center" at a large and successful celebration of Dr. Nelson's life and work in March 2005. The funds raised in connection with this event have provided for a renovation of the space that the center occupies in the Halle Library. The renovation makes it possible to provide small group technology instruction, flexible seating for small group meetings, and a quiet study/reading area for faculty. The EMU Foundation, a large number of emeritus faculty, and the Provost's Office have graciously made this renovation possible.