Consultations
Consultation Services
The Center for Faculty Development offers confidential, one-on-one or group consultations on learning and teaching, professional development, and research practice.
Consultations are typically most effective face-to-face (either in-person or via Zoom), though we can also do them over the phone if necessary. Our aim is to help you—as SU faculty—find solutions or alternatives that you are comfortable with, since the same approach will not work for all faculty needs.
Below are examples of the kinds of consultation inquiries we receive in the three areas of our purview.
Further down the page you'll also find details on the voluntary, formative, and confidential nature of our work with faculty.
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Learning and Teaching
Example consultation topics:
- Revising program learning outcomes
- Developing program classroom norms
- Curriculum mapping to highlight transferrable career skills development in a program
- Creating positive learning environments
- Creating shared grading criteria
Example consultation topics:
- Revising the syllabus
- Changing or redesigning assignments
- Developing in-class activities
- Dealing with classroom incivilities
- Creating grading criteria
- Encouraging group discussion
- Enhancing student motivation
- Making the most of classroom diversity
- Working with non-native English speakers
- Providing helpful feedback
- Finding evidence in the literature to inform the work you are doing
Research Practice
Example consultation topics:
- Setting up discipline-based writing groups
- Collaborative research processes
Example consultation topics:
- Developing and maintaining a writing habit
- Time management for completing research
- Targeting journals and publishers
- Working with editors and responding to reviewers’ comments
- Developing a research agenda
- Conveying your research agenda to people outside your field
Professional Development
Example consultation topics:
- Developing departmental norms for productive meetings and balanced workloads
- Developing faculty governance structures
Example consultation topics:
- Mentoring faculty
- Career planning
- Life-work balance
- The art of worthwhile meetings
- Enhancing faculty inclusion in decision-making
- Working with difficult colleagues
- Developing faculty governance structures