Vision & Mission

Faculty Success buckets

Faculty-thriving and student thriving are inherently intertwined. By supporting faculty, our work enhances students’ academic, personal, and professional success. We center diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice and DU’s teacher-scholar model in how we support each faculty member. Our mission is to: 

  1. Invest in the wellbeing of faculty, including the prevention and repair of harms; and we seek to build and support shared governance through transparent, inclusive, and equitable systems and policies.  

  1. Offer a relentless welcome that is continuously reconfirmed—this starts with onboarding and orientation and extends to retirement and beyond.  

  1. Collaborate closely with faculty to create opportunities for learning and growth across career stages and dimensions of the faculty experience.  

  1. Build a culture of value and celebration of the contributions of all faculty across ranks and series. 

Core Activities ("What We Do") 

  1. Support faculty across different career stages at DU. 

  1. Provide resources and guidance around review, tenure, and promotion. 

  1. Through the Office of Teaching & Learning, advance evidence-based pedagogy, course design, and scholarship of teaching and learning. 

  1. Deliver high-quality professional development and leadership training. 

  1. Collaborate with shared governance to clarify and make equitable policies. 

  1. Coordinate with university units to share resources. 

  1. Celebrate faculty achievements.