Services and Centers for Faculty

Formerly the Office of Professional Development (OPD)

As the central hub for faculty development, the office of the executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the faculties oversees several campus centers that collaborate to deliver programs and services in support of faculty throughout each stage of their career.

Below is a list of the key centers that provide professional development services for faculty. Click the appropriate link to be taken directly to that center’s website. If you do not find the service you require on the list below, please contact Sharon Hamilton at: shamilto@iupui.edu.

Consortium for Learning and Scholarship

  • Advancing urban mission in teaching, research and service
  • Experiential Learning
  • Faculty communities of practice
  • Promote and foster inclusive campus community

Center for Research and Learning

  • Grant writing and support
  • Preparing future faculty
  • Faculty mentorship of students engaged in undergraduate research

Center for Service and Learning

  • Development of service learning and civic engagement opportunities
  • Scholarship of service and civic engagement

Center for Teaching and Learning

  • Advancing innovative teaching practices that promote student learning
  • Advancing the appropriate use of instructional technology to support student learning
  • Support for multicultural teaching
  • Support for online teaching
  • Classroom observation of teaching
  • Resources on teaching
  • Orientation and teaching support for part-time faculty
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning

Faculty Appointments and Advancement

  • Advocacy and mentoring for part-time faculty
  • Faculty career flexibility
  • Leadership development
  • New faculty orientation
  • Promotion and tenure workshops and support
  • Recruiting and hiring practices for faculty (includes recruitment of faculty of color)

Multicultural Center (coming soon)

  • Advocacy for faculty of color

Office for Women

  • Advocacy and mentoring for women faculty, staff and students