CAFE: Center for Faculty Enrichment
MISSION
The mission of the Center for Faculty Enrichment is to cultivate a collaborative community that supports excellence and equity in faculty teaching and learning, scholarship, and professional growth.
VALUES
TRUST: We cultivate TRUST through confidentiality, responsiveness, and supporting faculty in their growth. We ground our work in professional knowledge and advocacy for educators.
CURIOSITY: We embrace CURIOSITY by promoting exploration, evidence-based practices, and iterative reflection. Through adaptability and assessment, we foster a culture of continuous learning.
COLLABORATION: We believe the best solutions emerge during COLLABORATION. By encouraging partnerships and recognizing the interconnected nature of education, we create more meaningful and sustainable outcomes.
INCLUSION: We promote INCLUSION by recognizing the diversity of experiences, perspectives, thoughts, and approaches that enrich our educational community. Through our self-reflection and commitment, we support all educators’ teaching, research, and leadership development.
Goals
Connections and Learning Communities
Connections are vitally important for CAFE. CAFE connects faculty to a variety of learning communities to support teaching, scholarship, and professional growth.
On Time “Programming” and Resources
CAFE is a resource that provides programs based on what people need, as well as emerging topics/trends. We offer on-time programming and resources in a format that is easily accessible.
Infrastructure
CAFE serves as a valuable campus resource and invests in a sustainable infrastructure, including dedicated spaces, expert staffing, assessment, fundraising, and strategic partnerships.
CAFE Resources
CAFE programs and teaching, research, and leadership resources click here for the CAFE blogsite.
New Faculty resources click here for CAFE’s New Faculty @ Longwood blogsite.
CAFE Signature Programs
The Monday Blackwell Talks is a forum which allows faculty to present developing research and innovative ideas in an informal, friendly environment to their colleagues who then ask questions and provide suggestions and additional ideas. The goal of Monday Blackwell Talks is to foster a campus environment of collaboration, scholarly interaction, and faculty development.
Teaching and Learning Institutes
Each May, Longwood's CAFE hosts a Teaching and Learning Institute. This day-long workshop focuses on an important trend in higher education. The Institute is free to all Longwood faculty and staff as well as faculty from other colleges and universities in Virginia. For more information click here.
Dynamic Learning Dialogue
The Dynamic Learning Dialogue is an early to mid-semester evaluation technique that provides instructors with rich qualitative feedback from their students regarding the learning environment in a course. Feedback obtained from a Dynamic Learning Dialogue can be used for focused reflections on one’s teaching to enhance classroom interactions, student learning, and teaching strategies. See below for more information or click on this link.
Interested faculty members contact CAFE (cafe@longwood.edu) to set up an initial appointment.
