FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

The primary clientele of the Center are Marquette faculty and graduate students who intend to have careers in higher education. The Center strives to improve teaching and learning by means of both traditional understandings such as those developed in more than 450 years of Jesuit pedagogy and more recent insights that come from the cognitive sciences and new electronic technologies.

The following are recent activities that the Center has sponsored or contributed to:

• Developing the New and Adjunct Faculty Guide to provide a wealth of instructional resources to Marquette faculty.
• Working with university departments to develop an improved process for peer review of teaching;
• Offering a seminar on teaching-related services available on campus for new faculty
• Developing a mentoring program for young faculty, who can benefit from the advice of a senior faculty member serving as a coach;.
• Developing a new instrument in conjunction with the Office of the Provost and faculty to solicit student commentary on faculty teaching;
• Working in conjunction with the Graduate School to broaden and strengthen the Preparing Future Faculty Program;
• Offering seminars on university expectations and resources related to effective teaching;
• Supporting rapidly developing faculty interest in and use of electronic course management tools and online learning
• Assisting faculty to develop teaching-based proposals for external funding.
• Offering graduate classes on higher education topics for graduate students who hope for faculty careers