Center for Faculty Development
Center for Faculty Development
The ACUE experience on our campus has been transformative institutionally. Through the ACUE Faculty Development Institute participants support one anothers’ teaching and over all success as faculty members, resulting in new community connections across the university as well as powerful impacts in the classroom.
Dr. Amy Chasteen, Executive Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at Southern Miss
The ACUE Faculty Development Institute at Southern Miss is an intensive professional development program offered to enhance teaching practices. The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) was founded by leaders in higher education to advance instruction, support college educators, and promote student success. ACUE helps colleges and universities achieve their goals for students through innovative faculty development partnerships and a research-based Course in Effective Teaching Practices.
The ACUE Faculty Development Institute at Southern Miss includes four programs:
The 10-week program allows for individual and collective reflection through ACUE modules and weekly facilitated meetings.
ACUE Faculty fellows invest time (1) individually working through online interactive modules, (2) exploring at least one technique in a class during the week, and (3) joining together each week as a group for a facilitated discussion on that week's topic. At the end of every course/microcredential, faculty fellows receive an ACUE/USM Certificate from the Center for Faculty Development as well as badges from ACUE, indicating their successful completion of that stage of training.
Upon the successful completion of Effective Teaching Practices, Effective Online Teaching
Practices, or the Advanced Certificate, faculty fellows earn the Certificate in Effective College Instruction, endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE), and are conferred the USM designation of ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholar.
Applications for spring 2024 ACUE opportunities will be available soon and due by
November 15, 2023. ACUE Faculty Fellows that are selected to participate in the spring
2024 program will be notified on or before December 8, 2023.
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