Welcome to the Faculty Development Center (FDC)
The Faculty Development Center provides a centralized place to support the teaching of all EMU faculty, lecturers, teaching GAs, and student success staff. The FDC promotes excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarly activities in accordance with the core values of respect, inclusiveness, care, and commitment. The Center grounds itself in awareness and support for cultural diversity and community-building.
Resources and Services
Happenings at the Faculty Development Center
Collaborative Course (Re)Design Learning Community
- Applications due Friday, May 30 @ 8 PM.
- Open to Faculty & Lecturers
- Learning community of faculty-student pairs working together collaboratively to redesign portions of a course that you want to update and improve
Instructional Partnerships Learning Community
- Applications are due by Friday, May 30 @ 8 PM
- Open to Faculty & Lecturers
- One semester learning community including pairs of faculty and their student partners who will serve as their instructional partner for a class of their choosing
Designing Non-Credit Microcredentials at EMU: A Summer Seminar
- Virtual: multiple dates throughout May @ 10:30 AM - 12 PM
- Open to Faculty & Lecturers
- A seminar focusing on non-credit programming and microcredentials, including exploring key concepts, learning to unbundle credit courses into modular, non-credit offerings, and designing microcredential proposals for adult learners
Student-Centered Online Teaching & Learning Pedagogies Learning Community
- Applications are due August 31 @ 5 PM
- Open to Faculty & Lecturers
- Learning community focused on research-based best practices in student-centered online teaching and learning pedagogies that promote Instructional Effectiveness
Bridge Supports: Helping Instructors Prepare & Support EMU Students Moving Into Professional Fieldwork
- Applications are due July 15 @ 8 PM
- Open to Faculty, FTL, PTL, and Staff
- Two-day workshop aimed at bringing together EMU employees who are responsible for incorporating field experiences into their coursework
Summer 2025 Higher Ed Conversation Group
- Multiple dates throughout summer
- Open to Academic Administrators, Faculty, Lecturers, Staff & Students
- Lunch-time conversation series about important issues facing higher education today
Spotlights
Dr. Katy Greenwald, Professor of Biology & Kaz Reszetar Undergraduate Student
Dr. Katy Greenwald, Professor of Biology & Kaz Reszetar Undergraduate Student
Nominate a Spotlight
Partnership Spotlights highlight student-faculty partnerships on campus. If you are interested in being featured in a Partnership Spotlight or know of a student-faculty pairing worth highlighting, please complete the short form below. To view previous Partnership Spotlights, click here.
Teaching Spotlights highlight lecturers and faculty from a variety of departments. If you know of an instructor that is worth highlights, please complete the short form below. To view previous Teaching Spotlights, please click here.