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This course will provide an organizational approach to managing and evaluating faculty development and mentoring opportunities, as a means of helping all faculty members realize their potential and achieve their goals and of achieving diversity in leadership. It will review the literature on faculty development and mentoring. Participants will develop the knowledge and skills needed to address specific areas such as orientation of new faculty; policy and procedures to promote faculty development and access to quality mentoring; educational sessions and programs to address teaching methods and educational technology; promotion of research and scholarship in education; and identification of resources needed to facilitate excellence in teaching. Participants will develop their own faculty development plan for a relevant part of their own institution.