Teaching Center

Faculty Development Award

The Faculty Development Award is an annual award given to support a faculty member working to enhance the learning of his or her students. This award offers a stipend of $500 to be used during the academic year to help reimburse expenses related to a faculty development project that would be enhanced by attending a conference, workshop, or seminar (including on-line) of the recipient's choice.

The project should enhance the faculty member’s knowledge of pedagogy (or teaching and learning, generally) with the intent of:

Devising new methods to enhance and improve students’ learning including creative teaching strategies or resourceful and imaginative uses of technology

OR

Systematically analyzing his/her teaching and learning process or that of his/her students with the goal of improving the design of a course or encouraging other faculty members to do the same.

The conference, workshop or seminar attended can be discipline specific or of general pedagogic interest.

Any part-time or full-time faculty member may apply for this award.

To apply, submit a letter of application that includes: a statement of intent with information about the faculty development project you plan to pursue; a rationale for the project and how you anticipate the information gained by attending the conference/ workshop/seminar will contribute to fulfilling one or both of the criteria listed above; some consideration of how you see this project fitting into the mission of the Teaching Center and CCP.

The Faculty Development Award recipient will be honored formally at the College Honors Tea in May and invited to enrich the college community by presenting in the Teaching Center on some aspect of their project.

Past Recipients
Patricia Valdez (2001-2002)
Fay Beauchamp and Diane Freedman (2002-2003)
Jean Forsha (2003-2004)
Nancy Carr (2004-2005)
Kelly McQuain (2006-2007)
Jamie Picardy (2007-2008)
Margaret Stephens (2008-2009)
Cory Ng (2009-2010)
Amy Lewis (2010-2011)