Professional Development
Professional Development
Professional Development
The Faculty Center and other entities provide professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. These consist of workshops and trainings, certificate programs, conferences, Professional Learning Communities, and a summer book club.
Certificate Programs
Enhancing and Supporting Teaching
Enhancing and Supporting Teaching
Enage with colleagues in a series of live workshops to discuss trending and timely topics around teaching. Earn a professional development certificate from the Faculty Center for completing a series.
Self-Paced Professional Development Certificate Program
Self-Paced Professional Development Certificate Program
Professional learning on your schedule, with recognition for your growth.
Using Canvas to Support Face-to-Face Instruction
Using Canvas to Support Face-to-Face Instruction
Learn to use Canvas as a teaching tool to support and enhace your face-to-face classes. Enage in a series of live workshops and earn a professional development certificate from the Faculty Center.
Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a cross-disciplinary group of eight to twelve people who come together for a year-long adventure in active, collaborative, and dialogic learning. Participants become a community of learners, not a decision-making body, task-force, or committee.
Self-Paced Courses
Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for Faculty
Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for Faculty and its resources are designed to meet you at your level and your speed. Each module is designed to guide you through the features of Canvas and assist you in preparing your course for the fall semester.
This course features Canvas videos and documentation organized in a way that will be beneficial to instructors creating a course. The instructor can choose which features to implement in their course.
Faculty Handbook on Academic Integrity
Faculty Handbook on Academic Integrity is a collection of Rowan Policies, procedures, definitions, proactive strategies, class activities, etc. to assist you with improving the academic integrity of your courses.
Interpreting the Results of the Rowan Course Evaluations
Interpreting the Results of the Rowan Course Evaluations is a self-directed, online course will introduce you to the reports generated by the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) Course Evaluation system.
These reports can be included in faculty re-contracting packets, and the data included in the reports can be used by administrators and committees to evaluate the faculty.
This training consists of short videos, resource guides and other materials to get you familiar with the system and the data.
Conferences
Rowan Teaching Connection's (RTC) Conferences
Rowan Teaching Connection (RTC) holds free bi-annual conferences each year in October/November and March/April.
Temple's Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence
Temple's Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence.
Temple University Conference, January 7 & 8, 2026
Workshops, Training and Memberships
IRT Offerings
LinkedIn Learning
This service provides faculty, staff and students with access to more than 13,000 courses in business, creative and technology skills taught by expert instructors.
Rowan Library Workshops
Rowan University Libraries offers workshops that are free and open to students, staff, faculty, and the public.
NCFDD Membership
Rowan is an institutional member of the NCFDD.
Activating your NCFDD account is an easy, straightforward process. Select your institution by typing in "Rowan University", click continue, click "Activate My Membership" and follow the instructions.
Summer Book Club
Summer Book Club
Each summer the Faculty Center selects a book to read and discuss. The Summer Book Club is open to all Rowan Faculty and Staff. The Faculty Center cost-shares the expense of the book with other interested departments. Books are available free on a first come, first served basis. All you need to do is... promise is to attend one of our book club meetings to share and discuss your thoughts. Participants should read the book by the end of July and attend one discussion session in August. All discussion sessions are the same, and they cover the whole book.
Updated 11/18/25