• Location and hours
• Contact us
• New Faculty
• Open-door Courses
• Video Program
• Library
• Publishing

In 2002, Wesleyan University, along with Oberlin, Amherst, Grinnell, Pomona, Reed, Smith, and Williams received a major collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help strengthen faculty career development. At Wesleyan, we continue to bring faculty members together to foster a sharing of ideas. Through grants, workshops, seminars, publications, and formal and informal discussions, we hope to cultivate dialogue among our own faculty members and encourage association with faculty members at other academic institutions. Generous support from friends helps to keep our Center thriving. Many sincere thanks to our benefactors and our advisory board.

Welcome New Faculty! For a list and links click here.

Open-door courses. A number of faculty members have expressed interest in continuing an Open-door Listing -- that is a list of instructors who have agreed to invite other faculty members to observe one or two of their classes. If you are a visitor, please contact your colleague at least one week in advance. If you would like to be included in on the list, please contact us.

Publishing Advice. Placing your manuscript with the right publisher is one of the most important decisions you'll make as a scholar. As financial pressures force scholarly presses to be more selective in their acquisitions, identifying the right presses and compiling the key elements in your book proposal are all the more important. The staff of Wesleyan University Press is happy to offer feedback to any faculty member looking for guidance on putting together book proposals, choosing the right publisher, or wondering what to look for in a publishing contract. To make an appointment, contact Suzanna Tamminen, Director, at x7727, stamminen@wesleyan.edu

Be sure to visit Wesleyan's Intellectual Property Web site designed to help facilitate the fair sharing of ideas. You will find information on preparing materials for campus use, posting material to your own Web site, publishing advice, permission forms, legal audio and video downloads, and more.

Our classroom videotaping service is now available. We are happy to arrange for a professional from ITS to record your class for you. He or she will give you your digital cassette at the end of class. We have a mini DV player in the Center. If you wish, bring the tape to the Center and watch it alone, with us or with a mentor, and/or ask us to transfer the recording to a DVD.
Twice a year we bring a consultant from the Bok Center to campus and invite faculty members who have been videotaped to bring their tapes to the Center for one-on-one sessions. Please call or e-mail Victoria for more information.

Our Center is equiped with a mobile video cabinet complete with vhs, dvd, and digital cassette players. Come in and slip on a pair of headphones.

We have started a small collection of books, videos and articles for educators, and will keep our Library-In-Progress link updated as we add to the shelves. The books, videos and articles listed are available for on-site viewing and short-term borrowing. We also subscribe to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Please Note: Our Mini-grant Program has been replaced by a new project-grant program through Academic Affairs . Please contact Joy Vodak at gisos@wesleyan.edu for further information.

The Center is located on the third floor of the Olin Library, suite 302b. We are usually here Monday through Thursday 9:00-3:30, Friday mornings, and by appointment for individual and group conferences. Please stop in, phone or e-mail us.

Sean McCann
Director, Center for Faculty Career Development
Professor of English
x2351, smccann@wesleyan.edu

Victoria Stahl
Assistant Director, Center for Faculty Career Development
x2341, vstahl@wesleyan.edu