The Office of Faculty Affairs provides a wide variety of assistance to faculty, associate deans, deans, chairs, and other constituents on matters related to faculty processes, academic policies, awards and events, and other issues.
The Office of Faculty Affairs includes the following centers and programs:
Faculty Success Centers
The University of Colorado Denver supports three distinct offices
that provide innovative high-quality programs, resources and services
designed to help faculty achieve rank and career advancement, develop
their teaching and learning expertise, and accelerate research
endeavors and opportunities.
The Center for Faculty Development and Advancement (CFDA)
The CFDA provides programs, resources and services that support
faculty as they work toward rank advancement, grow as leaders in their
departments, communities and fields, and thrive as members of the University
community. The CFDA
provides funding for tenure-track faculty members, a faculty mentoring program,
tenure and promotion sessions, dossier development support, a library of
successful dossier models, professional development programs, and communities
of practice.
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL)
The CETL
enhances excellence in undergraduate and graduate education through the
development of faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching
practices. The center promotes university teaching that helps
students learn, persist, succeed, and ultimately graduate and works to foster
the use of evidence-based educational strategies that have been
demonstrated to foster learning and improve academic outcomes for students.
Office of Research Services (ORS)
ORS is the
overarching faculty development component of the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research. ORS provides
faculty development resources that enhance faculty research and creative work,
proposal support for sponsored project grant and contract applications, and
helps publicize research and creative work. The Office of Research Development
and Education (ORDE) andThe Creative
Research Collaborative (CRC) are housed
within ORS. ORDE focuses services on supporting faculty success in external
funding while CRC fosters interdisciplinary research on the Denver Campus.