Wofford gets $250,000 faculty development grant

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Wofford College has received a grant of $250,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to align faculty development and support with the learning needs of tomorrow’s college students.

The college will create a reciprocal mentoring program for faculty that enhances collaboration and leverages the faculty’s talent and expertise at all levels, and the grant will allow faculty and administration to work together to better address the challenges of the future in private higher education, according to a news release.

“Tomorrow’s college students are increasingly first-generation, socio-economically diverse and students of color,” said Wofford Provost Michael J. Sosulski, in the release. “They often are driven by specific value propositions about college education and its pathway to career outcomes, and upon graduation, they will enter a rapidly changing economy with industries facing disruption on all sides.”

Wofford will use the three-year, $250,000 grant to “create an innovative approach to faculty mentoring for pre-tenured, mid-career and advanced-career faculty as well as a comprehensive leadership development program for academic department chairs,” the release said.