Founded in 1990, the Faculty Center for Professional Development initiates, coordinates, and supports programs that assist faculty members in improving their teaching abilities and achieving their own professional goals. The Faculty Center and the Faculty Development Advisory Committee are dedicated to improving instruction to enable student learning, promoting collegial relations, enhancing faculty vitality, and supporting research, scholarship and service.
To advance innovative, effective instruction throughout the University, further developing what is already high quality teaching and extending our expertise on teaching and learning for diverse students.
To enhance faculty vitality at all career stages and promote collegial relations by offering a variety of excellent programs and opportunities through the Faculty Center, and increasing faculty participation in those programs and activities.
To advance research, scholarship (especially around teaching and learning and civic engagement), creative, and other professional activities of the faculty, increasing faculty productivity.
To assist departments in recruiting high-quality faculty and to orient and support new faculty, ensuring their retention, advancement, and success at Cal Poly Pomona.
The Faculty Center is located in Building 1-227 which is on the second floor near parking lot A.
