Faculty and Leadership Development

Faculty and Leadership Development offers a variety of programs & services to support the professional development of department chairs and faculty, focusing on strengthening teaching and research. We also provide leadership development programming for faculty and staff.

To learn more, please select from the topics listed below.

LTC Newsletter

The LTC Newsletter is published by the Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center in the fall and spring semesters. It is designed to stimulate understanding and innovations in learning and teaching and focuses on professional growth and development of faculty, along with listing developmental opportunities.

Assessment Resources

These resources are intended to help faculty and administrators create and refine their efforts to assess teaching, student learning, and program design.

Chairs Collaborative

The Chairs' Collaborative is an informal, supportive, and collegial gathering of department chairpersons for the purpose of exchanging information and sharing best practices to improve the effectiveness of individual chairs and to create cross-campus links between departments.

Confidential Consultations

Staff and faculty associated with the LTC are available for one-on-one confidential consultations on a variety of teaching and learning topics.

Faculty Exchange Series

The Faculty Exchange Series (FES), hosted by UD's Faculty Development Committee and facilitated by faculty and staff from our campus community, provides opportunities for exploration of issues and topics important to UD faculty. The subjects and topics are generated and hosted by faculty through a proposal process. Topics range from instructional issues to programmatic, curricular, scholarship, or campus life issues— anything that would foster faculty growth, professional development, and enhance quality of work life.

Faculty Development Committee

The Committee's responsibilities include the development and facilitation of the LTC's faculty development programs. The committee is comprised of distinguished faculty from academic units across the University; committee members generally serve a three year term.

Grants and Awards

The Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center offers a number of grant opportunities for faculty development. We are also happy to collaborate with faculty seeking to develop proposals or to conduct research linked to improving learning and teaching.

Journals and Other Online Resources

Roesch Library provides online access to several professional development journals. The LTC can also provide a list of discipline-specific teaching journals upon request.

Leadership UD

Leadership UD is a year-long program designed to cultivate leadership capabilities and a leadership mindset among high interest/high potential UD employees. A combination of faculty and staff are nominated by Vice Presidents and Deans to participate.

LTC Learning Workshops

A series of thematically-linked seminars on critical issues such as the assessment of learning, promoting active learning, the use of technology in the classroom, and supporting scholarship with new library tools. To learn more, check out the latest issue of the LTC Newsletter.

Midterm Instructional Diagnosis

Full and part-time faculty can request this mid-semester student learning and instructional improvement process that is voluntary and confidential. Over the years, faculty report improved learning, creative suggestions for change, and higher end-of-semester evaluation scores by using the MID. Student praise the process because it communicates faculty interest in their perceptions and helps to improve teaching.

Part-Time Faculty Workshops

Held in fall and spring, these workshops offer a variety of topics to be explored, ranging from ways to engage students in the classroom to learning more about the resources UD provides  to help instructors. To learn more, check out the latest issue of the LTC Newsletter.

Reading Groups

The LTC sponsors semester-long reading groups of faculty and staff who read current books about teaching and learning. Participants receive free copies of the book in exchange for attending designated sessions in the LTC where they share their insights on the texts with their group.

Studio

The Studio is an experimental classroom for inquiry-based teaching. Named for John O. Geiger, who served as University Provost from 1996 to 2001, it is a place where faculty try new pedagogies and share their experiences with other faculty in a collaborative and supportive setting. The Studio provides a space for creative learning and teaching, as well as resources to support participants as they develop their scholarship of teaching and widen their repertoire of student-centered learning strategies.