About the Faculty Center
Our Mission
Founded in 1990, the Faculty Center for Professional Development initiates, coordinates, and supports programs that assist faculty members in improving their teaching abilities and achieving their own professional goals. The Faculty Center and the Faculty Development Advisory Committee are dedicated to improving instruction to enable student learning, promoting collegial relations, enhancing faculty vitality, and supporting research, scholarship and service.
Goals
- To advance innovative, effective instruction throughout the University, further developing what is already high quality teaching and extending our expertise on teaching and learning for diverse students.
- To enhance faculty vitality at all career stages and promote collegial relations by offering a variety of excellent programs and opportunities through the Faculty Center, and increasing faculty participation in those programs and activities.
- To advance research, scholarship (especially around teaching and learning and civic engagement), creative, and other professional activities of the faculty, increasing faculty productivity.
- To assist departments in recruiting high-quality faculty and to orient and support new faculty, ensuring their retention, advancement, and success at Cal Poly Pomona.
Faculty Development Advisory Council
Faculty Center priorities and activities are guided by input from the Faculty Development Advisory Council (FDAC). FDAC members are elected from each college and confirmed by the Faculty Senate for 3-yr terms. For the 2009-2010 academic year, FDAC members are:
- Agriculture -- Fred Roth (retiring)
- Business Administration -- Rita Kumar
- Collins College of Hospitality Management -- Neha Singh
- Education & Integrative Studies -- Hend Gilli-Elewy
- Engineering -- Phil Rosenkrantz
- Environmental Design -- Alyssa Lang
- Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences -- Michael Cholbi
- Library -- Julie Shen
- Science -- Lan Yang
- Ex officio -- Gary Hamilton, Faculty Affairs
