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Welcome to the Center for Faculty Excellence!

Our mission is to advance instructional excellence, facilitate professional success, and foster faculty leadership through a collaborative approach, supporting the goals of UNO as a premier metropolitan university. We support and provide a wide-range of professional development opportunities.

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Shaping the future of GenEd at UNO

Whether you're looking to redesign a course, enhance your teaching strategies, or engage in deeper conversations about student learning, we invite you to be part of this exciting transformation.

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CFE Events and Registration

Explore our upcoming events and register now to guarantee your spot!

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Coaching Collaborative

A network of opportunities for full-time faculty and staff to receive free and confidential coaching that will enhance their confidence and empowerment in their work to support students, help them identify goals, support skill development, and work through workplace challenges.

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The Level Up Podcast

This podcast is an AI-generated adaptation of original written articles by faculty members. Using NotebookLM, we've transformed their scholarly work into audio format.

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LEVEL UP: A Guide for Mid-Career Faculty

Level Up: A Guide for Mid-career Faculty was developed by the Center for Faculty Excellence in collaboration with experienced UNO faculty members from across campus. This guide provides ideas, suggestions, tips, and hints that might inspire, reinvigorate, and guide our colleagues to advance UNO’s pillars.

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Access to Excellence: A Faculty Guide

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Access to Excellence: A Faculty Guide

"Access to Excellence: A Faculty Guide“ was developed by the Center for Faculty Excellence in collaboration with UNO faculty members with the intent to provide easy access to ideas and strategies to enhance teaching and learning and to strengthen UNO’s ability to educate all learners and insights to advance faculty research and creative endeavors and elevate UNO’s commitment to scholarship and discovery.

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Upcoming Events

Completion CaFE - Faculty (Friday, September 5)

Faculty members can work alongside colleagues and away from the distractions of their office to complete a task/project.

Completion CaFE - Chairs and Directors (Friday, September 12)

Chairs and directors can work alongside colleagues and away from the distractions of their office to complete a task/project.

Coaching Conversations with Jennifer Askey (Friday, September 26)

Coaching conversations promote growth and reflection and can be woven into conversations, annual reviews, and performance evaluations.

Fall 2025 TABS - WEEK 6 (Monday, September 29)

WEEK 6 - TABS provides full- and part-time faculty (including teaching assistants) a free and confidential opportunity to assess pedagogical strengths and weaknesses at the mid-point of the fall or spring semesters.

Fall 2025 TABS - WEEK 7 (Monday, October 6)

WEEK 7 - TABS provides full- and part-time faculty (including teaching assistants) a free and confidential opportunity to assess pedagogical strengths and weaknesses at the mid-point of the fall or spring semesters.

Fall 2025 TABS - WEEK 8 (Monday, October 13)

WEEK 8 - TABS provides full- and part-time faculty (including teaching assistants) a free and confidential opportunity to assess pedagogical strengths and weaknesses at the mid-point of the fall or spring semesters.

2025-26 Communities of Practice Application (Tuesday, October 14)

CoPs are faculty-led professional development groups that meet periodically and work toward outcomes related to writing/research/creative activity, student success, or general education.

Immersive Writing Experience (FALL BREAK 2025)

An immersive writing experience for faculty sponsored by the UNO Writing Center and the Center for Faculty Excellence.

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