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Union University Center for Faculty Development
Center for Faculty Development

Center Leadership



The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) seeks to encourage communities of faculty that support each other in becoming excellent teachers and creative and fruitful contributors to their disciplines. We offer resources and opportunities for professional, intellectual and spiritual growth, as well as opportunities for leadership advancement. Faculty are encouraged to know and love God, seeing their teaching, scholarship, creative work, and service as part of their Christian calling to the academic world.

Center Contacts

  • Barbara McMillin, Associate Provost and Dean of Instruction
    bmcmilli@uu.edu, 731-661-5314, PAC F-5
  • Nan Thomas, Associate Director of Faculty Development
    nthomas@uu.edu, 731-661-5065, PAC F-18A
  • Randy Phillips, Director of Faculty Research
    rphillips@uu.edu, 731-661-5209, PAC F-14
  • Suzanne Barham, Project Coordinator, Office of the Provost
    sbarham@uu.edu, 731-661-5378, PAC Academic Center

Faculty Development Committee Members 2011-12

"Study is a specific kind of experience in which through careful observation of objective structures we cause thought processes to move in a certain way . . . When done with concentration, perception and repetition, ingrained habits of thought are formed."
-Richard Foster; Celebration of Discipline