A collaborative model for faculty development: Helping faculty develop inclusive teaching practices

Inclusive pedagogy, an intentional approach to creating learning environments that meet the instructional needs of diverse student populations, is critically important and a moral imperative in contemporary higher education. Among the biggest challenges for creating faculty development programming to address the development and use of inclusive pedagogy are the lack of financial resources to support the effort and a lack of centralized institutional staff expertise and resources to inform and support such efforts. This case study gives a model for an institutional collaboration that incorporates experts from a variety of offices to deliver a series of inclusive teaching workshops and incentivizes faculty and instructors by awarding a certificate. We describe the administrative processes for establishing this collaboration and the process of assessing the program, and we review the results after one year of the program’s existence.