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Faculty Development Resource Centre University of Gujrat
« on: August 14, 2009, 11:25:54 AM »
Faculty Development Resource Centre  University of Gujrat                   
The Office of Faculty Development Resource Centre (FDRC) aims to support UOG faculty, academic staff and administrators in their ongoing quest for excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and leadership. To accomplish this goal, FDRC will offers a broad range of on going seminars and programs, services, and resources in the following strands
• Faculty Development
• Organizational/Leadership Development
• Research management
• Promoting the research attitude
• Research methodologies and use of contemporary statistical application tools
Goals for the proposed Faculty Development Resource Centre include:

• Sharing information about our faculty development programs, practices and priorities;
• Identifying, planning and implementing ways to communicate more effectively to maximize our efforts; and
• Promoting synergies and collaborations among the concerned organization for the research management.
• Promoting a web of knowledge transfer partnership

This web will be comprised of those who provide faculty development as their primary role or who have faculty development as a significant part of their portfolio of responsibilities.
Core Features of faculty Development resource center:
This includes faculty development to support:

Teaching and research as well as outreach teaching and outreach research

Issues or topics, such as multicultural education, instructional technology, compliance with policies and
regulations, e.g., HEC training, contracts and grants, and academic integrity, among others

Unit-based orientation programs for new faculty and academic administrators.

Researchers whose grant activities include faculty development as important dimensions of their projects.

Two measures capture nontraditional strategies:

1Active, project-centered instruction:
  This factor includes the following activities:
  Faculty Members working on independent, long-term projects, problems with no immediate solution, and
 technical writing skills; using hands-on activities; de-emphasizing paperwork and individual work.
2Discussion-oriented instruction: This measure focuses on discussion only.

Planning Officer  University of Gujrat

Mr. Muhammad Faheem Aslam
          
   Email:    faheem.aslam@uog.edu.pk