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.

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.

Camp Completion 2025
Join colleagues for a week of focused writing on your chosen project(s). Peer support and writing consultants will be available!

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

What is a wicked student, and how can we create them?
Paul Hanstedt on how general education can be designed to address the complex and evolving challenges of our world.
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.
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.
Upcoming Events
May 19: Camp Completion 2025
Camp Completion is an immersive writing experience for faculty sponsored by the UNO Writing Center and the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE). Join colleagues for a week of focused writing (May 19-23) on your chosen project(s).
