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The HBCU Faculty Development Network is a network of historically black colleges and universities dedicated to the sharing of innovative instructional techniques. It sponsors an annual symposium which brings together representatives from our institutions and other interested parties for the purpose of sharing methods used to advance the teaching and learning process. It also encourages collaborative efforts between HBCUs, including the sharing of teaching innovations and the writing of proposals for outside funding.
The categories of presentation being featured at the annual HBCU symposium are:
Collaborative Models
Teaching and Learning Styles
Curriculum Design and Revision
Instructional Strategies and Techniques
Diversity and Globalization
Learning Across the Curriculum
Educational Technology
Evaluation and Assessment of Learning; Outcome Based Assessment
Service Learning
ACTIVITIES
Some of the principal activities of the HBCU Faculty Network are:
1. promotion of conference categories within individual HBCU's and collaborative efforts among HBCUs
2. development of needs assessment questionnaires
3. creation of a resource booklet listing HBCU faculty resource persons
4. facilitation of a faculty exchange network for semester exchanges and short term visits
5. continuing expansion of the network to include UNCF and public HBCU's
6. expansion of the steering committee
7. development of proposals for additional funding for future Projects
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