Faculty Development

Faculty Development at DePauw University is a systematic, comprehensive, well-resourced effort to help us all do our best work, to learn and grow as individuals and as an intellectual and teaching community.

The Faculty Development Committee, along with the Faculty Development Coordinator (currently Meryl Altman, assisted by Terry Bruner and Ruth Myers) maintain a range of programs that support professional achievement, teaching improvement, and the life of the mind. Our programs include short and long-term internal funding for conferences and research travel; stipends for course development and for scholarly and creative projects; new faculty orientation, and other teaching workshops; mentoring; sabbaticals and other leaves; opportunities for a reduced teaching load to undertake research or teaching improvement; and groups that meet to read, write, and discuss topics of mutual interest.

A wide variety of projects are supported every year. We see particular value in collaborative and/or interdiscipinary projects, in faculty research that involves students, in creative work as well as more traditional scholarship, and (a new initiative) in work that investigates the area of Ethics.

Every semester, there are numerous well-attended on-campus opportunities for faculty members to present work in progress to their colleagues and receive helpful feedback.

On this site you will also find listed the awards by which the accomplishments of DePauw faculty members have been recognized, both locally and around the world.