Valencia College was named a “Great College to Work For™” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. We work to ensure that our faculty have all the tools needed to provide high-quality education to our students, as well as the programs to help you to continue your professional development.
Faculty Development
Are you interested in enhancing your practice, developing new and innovative strategies, and improving your students' learning? How about learning from your colleagues and sharing your expertise in a collaborative community within your campus, discipline or division?
Valencia College's comprehensive, competency-based faculty development program provides a variety of opportunities, from face-to-face seminars to online and mixed-mode. Classes are uniquely designed and facilitated by Valencia College experts—your colleagues.
Faculty Development seeks to support all faculty members as they expand their professional practices and examine their ongoing development in the five Essential Competencies of a Valencia College Educator. The goal of the Valencia College faculty development program is to engage teachers, scholars and practitioners in continuous improvement processes that result in student learning.
Whether you are looking for a single class or interested in working towards a certificate program, you can create your plan for development today:
Faculty Association
The Valencia Collegewide Faculty Association represents faculty through six campus assemblies: East, Lake Nona, Osceola, Poinciana, West and Winter Park.
Representatives from the campuses meet as the Faculty Council and function as a governing council of the college on issues concerning faculty.
Faculty Credentials Procedures Manual
Procedures, forms, and general information are based on the Faculty competence standard and guidelines specified by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) through the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. The purpose of this manual is to provide technical and procedural clarification for individuals responsible for faculty selection and credentialing.
Curriculum Proposals
Get general information, procedural guidelines and process forms related to curriculum proposals.
Curriculum Proposals
Faculty Tools
Faculty Resources
There are a number of resources available to help faculty members with anything they may need from collegewide general information to classroom details and human resources contacts.
- Collegewide resources
- Adjunct faculty development
- Contracts and payroll
- Classroom information
Institutional Effectiveness and Planning
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning is organized to support the demands of meaningful institutional effectiveness planning and implementation efforts within Academic Affairs and throughout the college.
Teaching/Learning Academy
The Teaching/Learning Academy (TLA), a community of practice, supports new professors, counselors and librarians as they develop individualized learning plans, a fundamental phase of the tenure process designed to assist tenure candidates to expand and improve their professional practices and students' learning.