Featured Programs
Faculty Development Workshop Calendar
Are you looking for some inspiration for trying something new? In addition to our comprehensive programs, Faculty Development offers productive workshops for CSUN faculty on a variety of topics throughout the year. We announce these in our monthly Newsletter which goes to all CSUN Faculty and you can view the Calendar for our current offerings.
New Faculty Academy
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This is a year-long program with monthly events aimed at enhancing new faculty’s long-term career success at CSUN.
Faculty Writing Communities
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The Faculty Writing Communities program provides faculty members with a structure and a positive community of fellow faculty interested in making weekly progress on their writing goals throughout the semester.
Transparent Assignments
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Are you interested in exploring how to create more transparent assignments so that more students can succeed? Would you like to learn how to develop strong writing prompts and better scaffolding/support for students? Adopt this evidence-based assignment template, which has been shown to reduce gaps in retention rates among first generation students.
Equity-Minded GRADING Series
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In this two-part workshop series, participants will be introduced to the pillars of equity-minded grading. We will examine the ideas and assumptions of traditional grading and introduce strategies for ensuring that grading is mathematically accurate, bias-resistant, and instills intrinsic motivation in our students.
Equity-Minded SYLLABUS Series
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In this two-part workshop series, participants will gain ideas for creating a syllabus that interrupts bias and creates an equity-minded environment using the Center for Urban Education’s Equity-Minded Syllabus Review.
Institute for Transformative Teaching and Learning
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This program focuses on closing race equity gaps in the teaching and learning experience. Faculty collaborate in a multidisciplinary group to learn about and apply evidence-based practices. The aim of this program is to empower faculty to transform their teaching so that it is even more fulfilling while leading to more equitable outcomes for our students of color.
Get Up To Speed with Unconscious Bias
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This self-paced, asynchronous program will enable you to develop foundational knowledge about unconscious bias around race and ethnicity and the ways it appears in the teaching and learning process. One of the goals of this program is to prepare faculty for success in racial equity work. Racial equity work refers to the intentional and conscious effort to provide fair access, opportunity, and advancement to each person in the organization, regardless of the individual's racial or ethnic identity.
Get Up to Speed with Online Teaching
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Want to level-up your online teaching skills and work at your own pace? This asynchronous program that integrates pedagogy PLUS technology covers best practices, techniques and tools to plan, create content, facilitate and assess learning online. Designed to benefit faculty newer to online teaching or who are just getting started, as well as spark ideas for faculty with online teaching experience.
Get Up to Speed with HyFlex
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Are you ready to learn about teaching HyFlex courses? This self-paced, asynchronous program covers strategies for teaching courses in multiple modalities while keeping all your students engaged. This course covers the important information you need to know to adapt your syllabus, materials, and delivery for this new modality where students can participate in your course face-to-face in the classroom or synchronously on Zoom (or asynchronously online, if you provide that additional option).
CSU Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Courses
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In addition to our CSUN programming, you can take advantage of the CSU-wide offerings on online course design using the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) framework, including a new Advanced QLT Course in Teaching Online.
ACUE's Effective Classroom Teaching Practices
Are you interested in learning more effective teaching practices focused on classroom instruction? Designed for new and seasoned instructors in any discipline, this CSUN-facilitated yearlong online course offers faculty a complete set of research-based teaching practices to build on their existing knowledge and expand their instructional toolkits.