What kinds of activities does the Faculty Development Program support?
The mission of the Faculty Development Program is to promote improved teaching and learning, as well as scholarship, at all levels of post-secondary education at CUNY, from associate-degree to Ph.D. programs. There is a special emphasis on funding faculty development projects that employ or evaluate the use of instructional technology in the classroom. Toward this end, programs in either of two basic formats are funded: Colloquia are one- or several-day events that may address matters of content, instructional strategy and designs, pedagogy, or (preferably) a combination of these; seminars are up to one- or two-semester-long courses intended to address a particular academic subject or pedagogical approach in depth. All Faculty Development activities should be designed to serve CUNY faculty drawn from at least two and preferably more campuses across the system. Keep in mind that these funds have been targeted to serve full-time CUNY faculty, not faculty from other institutions or gradua
