POLICY 4.13.1 - Faculty Development Policy Introduction
“Faculty development” includes all of the efforts and activities faculty members undertake to maintain and increase their professional expertise and standing. Research, writing, performance, post-graduate study, and active membership in professional societies are among the many particular activities “professional development” includes. At an institution like Shenandoah University, whose mission most prominently includes teaching, “faculty development” should also prominently include study and practice of developments concerning the science and art of teaching.
Professional development can result from faculty members’ private efforts or their participation in group activities such as professional meetings, workshops, or retreats.
Faculty members have the obligation to continue their development and the right to expect the university to assist them in these efforts. The university has the obligation to assist faculty development and the right to expect faculty members to devise and carry out plans for their personal development. Working together, faculty members and the university should share the goal of having every faculty member become as professionally competent and prominent as possible. This will help insure that the greatest possible success can be realized by both faculty members and the university.
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