Faculty Development
The Provost’s Office supports faculty and recognizes their accomplishments. This page connects faculty to important campus resources for teaching, research, scholarship, community engagement, leadership training, and the promotion and tenure process. Contact Joan Remski (remski@umich.edu), Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Digital Education for more information.
Teaching
The Active Learning Classroom (ALC) is designed for collaborative teaching methods and techniques.
The Center for Academic Innovation provides online teaching resources in Ann Arbor.
Resources for Canvas resources, video resources, Turnititn, and campus policies.
Use this form for reserving materials, support with student research skills, or suggesting materials for the library to purchase at the Mardigian Library.
Resources for instructional design support, curriculum redesign, engaged teaching resources, creative teaching fund grants and more.
The charge of the Open Education Committee (OEC) is to explore, learn about, and support all things Open in the disciplines and fields in higher education. This includes Open Educational Resources (OERs) as well as Open Pedagogies and Open Practices.
Above: 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient: Aditya Viswanathan, 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient: Christos Constantinides, 2024 Collegiate Lectureship Award Recipient: Jill Darling, 2024 Collegiate Lectureship Award Recipient: Lise Urbaczewski (not pictured), 2024 Lecturer Excellence in Inclusive Teaching (LEIT) Award Recipient: Aaron Kinzel
Research & Scholarship
Campus Grants assists faculty with pre- and post-award support, research development, resources for funding, and internal grand awards.
The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) is a nationally recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.
NCFDD’s core curriculum focuses on the development of key skills and strategies that lead to academic success. Training is available to members that establish and develop success habits which include:
- Semester planning
- Aligning time with priorities
- Developing a consistent daily writing practice
- Mastering academic time management
- Moving from resistance to writing
- Learning the art of saying “no”
- Cultivating a networks of mentors, sponsors, and collaborators
- Overcoming academic perfectionism
- Engaging in and resolving conflict in a healthy way
- Strategies for dealing with stress and rejection
Need to consult with a statistician about your research? Individual guidance is provided by CSCAR.
The Faculty Research Guide at the Mardigian Library assists with scholarly profiles, citations management, OA publishing discounts, impact metrics, and more.
Ethics and compliance in research covers a broad range of activity from general guidelines about conducting research responsibly to specific regulations governing a type of research (e.g., human subjects research).
The SURE Program supports research projects that include undergraduates in the summer.
Above: 2024 Distinguished Research Award Recipient: Pamela Aronson, 2024 Distinguished Academic Citizenship Award Recipient, Lee Freeman
Promotion & Tenure
The University of Michigan-Dearborn has set forth core principles and procedures for the promotion and tenure process. These procedures are designed to support high academic standards in awarding promotion and/or tenure, and to ensure a comprehensive, rigorous, and fair review of the candidates.
Community Engagement & Leadership
The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL) is your connection to innovative engagement for the university and our surrounding community. OCEL is here to help community partners identify UM-Dearborn campus resources that best address their needs.
Organizational Learning, the university’s central department for professional, career and leadership development, offers original training programs as well as carefully curated online programs from LinkedIn Learning and other leading experts in training and development. Programs and courses are available to all employees regardless of their level or field.
The Provost Fellows program of the University of Michigan-Dearborn provides faculty members with an opportunity to experience both the challenges and rewards of administration in higher education.