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Academic Affairs Office

The Faculty Collaborative

The Faculty Collaborative and known as "The Collaborative", serves as the University's hub for faculty development, instructional innovation, research support, and academic excellence.

The Collaborative supports faculty across all appointment types - adjunct, clinical, and full-time - in strengthening teaching practices, advancing student learning, and integrating scholarship, assessment, and educational technology into the classroom and broader academic community. Its programs, resources, and consultations promote effective teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and online environments.

Through partnerships with Student Experience and Mission, the Library, and other student-facing offices, the Collaborative cultivates an intentional sense of belonging among faculty. It promotes continuous improvement through professional development in pedagogy, course design, assessment of student learning, accessibility, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and the integration of teaching, research, and scholarship.

Areas of Focus

Faculty Development and Inclusion

The Collaborative fosters an inclusive academic community through regular, cyclical programming that supports pedagogical development, instructional innovation, and meaningful collaboration among faculty across all appointment types and academic programs. Particular emphasis is placed on the professional development and support of new faculty.

Faculty and Instructional Design

The Collaborative supports faculty in course design, delivery, and innovation across face-to-face, hybrid, and online learning environments. Its instructional design services strengthen online pedagogy, advance instructional innovation, and support the development of high-quality master courses.

Faculty Research and Scholarship

The Collaborative supports faculty research and scholarly engagement and provides leadership for the ethical oversight and development of research activities across the University. This area includes the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Exempt Review Committee (ERC).

Regular Programs and Services

The Collaborative provides:

  • Orientation for new faculty across all appointment types, introducing participants to Marywood University's mission, the student experience, the institutional Strategic Plan, and opportunities for mission-centered practice and institutional engagement.
  • Recurring online and in-person sessions, supplemented by email support, to help faculty navigate University- and college-wide academic practices and systems, including early alerts, midterm grading, advising responsibilities, and related academic processes.
  • Regular professional development programming focused on instructional development, learning theory, classroom organization and management, and emerging pedagogical practices.
  • Brightspace training and support, including regularly scheduled presentations developed and delivered in partnership with a dedicated instructional designer.
  • Responsive faculty training addressing state and federal requirements, accreditation standards, and other compliance obligations.
  • A centralized faculty resource repository offering podcasts, articles, guides, and other materials related to pedagogy, instructional design, assessment, accessibility, educational technology, and emerging teaching practices.

Resources

The Educational Technology Services (ETS) team at Marywood University supports and assists faculty in teaching online, hybrid, web-enhanced, and traditional courses through the implementation of technology using best practices and proven instructional design techniques. Get training for our LMS, BrightSpace. 

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Marywood University conducts consistent assessment of its success in achieving its mission and its mission to educate students. These learning outcomes guide the institution’s mission to foster social responsibility, sustainable solutions and ethical leadership, emphasizing commitment to the common good, human dignity, and holistic education. The assessment of institution-wide student learning outcomes is an enduring activity across the University including all academic programs and co-curricular programs. 

Core Outcomes were developed from the nationally recognized LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes, The Middle States Commission on Higher Education's general education standards, and the credit requirements of the PA Department of Education and are regularly assessed.

  • CATHOLIC IDENTITY: Marywood University values reflection on the process of respectful engagement with people of diverse faiths and worldviews through thoughtful dialogue or collaboration.  It is the articulation of the connection between the work of the discipline and the pursuit of truth, goodness, beauty, justice, and the common good.
  • RESPECT: In the spirit of Marywood University’s commitment to community, the demonstration of behaviors that honor the dignity, worth, and unique identity of every individual through the application of ethical and just decision-making in academic, social, and professional contexts.  Evaluate how choices and actions impact environmental stewardship, impact, and sustainability.
  • EMPOWERMENT: Through the use of academic knowledge and skills, Marywood University values the pursuit of real-world goals with confidence and with the ability to analyze complex problems and create informed responses, to support accessibility, and to demonstrate self-advocacy, initiative, and leadership in academic and community settings.
  • SERVICE: Marywood University’s community members identify and analyze real community needs or larger systemic inequities through research, dialogue, and observation. The goal is to prepare students to integrate academic learning with professional development.
  • EXCELLENCE: Our institutional values demonstrate mastery of discipline-specific knowledge and skills in pursuit of high academic and professional standards.  The focus is on high-level cognitive skill building, including critical thinking and communication skills.

Marywood University assesses these outcomes through both direct and indirect measures, including the review of student work, exams, projects, surveys, and other feedback mechanisms including evaluations and surveys.

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviews, approves, and monitors all research involving human participants that qualifies for full or expedited review.

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Exempt Review Committee is a classification of human research review.

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