Faculty Development

Faculty Development

This website is designed to help faculty at Elon University find more information about our shared values, expectations, and the range of faculty development supports that are available to enhance their work as Elon Teacher-Scholar-Mentors.

Values

Elon fosters a community of faculty teachers, scholars, and mentors “who are deeply committed to the potential of their disciplines to enhance our understanding of the human condition and the world.” Faculty at Elon embrace the ideal of the teacher-scholar-mentor and have defined that ideal, its values, and its expectations in a collectively crafted statement on “The Elon Teacher-Scholar-Mentor Model” (2003; rev. 2024).

As teachers, scholars, and mentors, Elon faculty are “dedicated to modeling the intellectual values we seek to impart to our students, including a learned, reflective, and critical approach to life.”

Expectations

Recognizing that “Effective teaching is activity which promotes the intellectual vitality of the University and the wider community,” the criteria for evaluation of teaching faculty in Elon’s Faculty Handbook explains that “Teaching is given top priority.” Second-level criterion include Contributions to the Life of the University and Professional Activity.

Support for Faculty Development

Elon provides resources for faculty professional development in all areas of faculty work, including development for teaching and professional activity.

Elon faculty take different paths toward continuance, tenure, and promotion. See here for examples of ways individual faculty might use these supports to meet the expectations in different ways.

Are you new to Elon and wonder where to get started? You’ll find more information and resources on the new faculty website.