Student Success Faculty Development Program Overview

As part of our SACS Quality Enhancement Plan, our institution has developed a faculty development model (Table 1) focused on active pedagogies that promote student success. 

Table 1 - Faculty Development Model

The faculty development model spans a five-year period, offering training at three different levels:

Level 1 

• Half-day training to entire faculty led by external consultant 
• Internal grants for faculty to conduct discipline-specific classroom research projects and to meet biweekly to discuss the implementation of engagement strategies
• Analysis of results and dissemination of findings

Level 2 

• Biweekly focus groups for faculty within each discipline to discuss and implement engagement strategies
• Peer review of faculty participating in the focus groups
• Analysis of results and dissemination of findings

Level 3 

• Online, self-directed training modules for faculty to use as a resource on discipline-specific engagement strategies
• Analysis of results and dissemination of findings