Faculty engagement does not happen because a training session is offered. It develops through clear expectations, useful support, and a process that helps faculty see how the work connects to their courses, programs, and students. This session provides a broad overview of how institutions can build more effective processes for faculty engagement and training across a range of campus initiatives, including new tools, assessment practices, curriculum work, and other shared priorities.
The session will focus on lessons learned from approaches that have worked, as well as those that have created confusion, uneven participation, or lost momentum. It will highlight practices that tend to support engagement, including early communication, role-specific guidance, peer examples, and opportunities to practice with real materials. It will also address common process challenges, such as asking faculty to learn procedures before decisions have been finalized, introducing features before faculty are ready to use them, assuming one department’s workflow will translate cleanly to another, or failing to follow early training with clear next steps. Participants will leave with practical considerations for designing faculty engagement and training processes that are purposeful, manageable, and more likely to last.
