Professional Development Opportunities at UML

The Faculty Development Center spearheads or collaborates on a number of internal and external professional development opportunities for faculty. All of these address teaching, research and scholarship on campus:

Opportunities at UMass Lowell:

Fridays with Faculty - Started in January 2007, Fridays with Faculty are informal lunchtime meetings with quick take-aways on topics relevant to faculty teaching. Generally, these are held on the last Friday of each month during the Fall and Spring Semesters.
See the latest schedule

Conversation Dinners - The Faculty Development Center collaborates with the Faculty Council on Teaching, Learning and Research as Scholarship (CTLRS) and select council task forces to bring a Fall and Spring Conversation Dinner to campus. Conversation Dinners unite faculty from all disciplines in interactive discussion and a dinner that focuses on at least one aspect of the integration of teaching, research and service. 
Past Conversation Dinners

Faculty Institutes - The Faculty Development Center organizes and delivers one to three day faculty institutes in winter and summer. Faculty Institutes are mini-courses offered to faculty that enrich faculty in the areas of pedagogy, technology, and assessment to name a few.
NOTE: We are scheduling the January 2009 Faculty Institutes - dates will be announced soon

Registration: To register for professional development events, go to: Event Registration System.

Institutional Memberships in External Organizations:

• POD (Professional Organizational Development Network)
• New England Faculty Development Consortium
• Sloan Consortium (premium member)

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