The Nexus for Faculty Success is designed to cultivate a supportive, dynamic, and innovative learning community where educators can grow and thrive throughout their professional lifecycle. The Nexus provides a university-wide space to advance learning and teaching, academic writing and scholarship, and leadership in faculty, by supporting them in their development as inclusive and culturally-responsive educators, leaders, and scholars, as they prepare students to be effective health care professionals. The Nexus partners with schools on existing initiatives and collaborates on new strategies, centering diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in its evidence-based and reflective programs, services, and practices. Contact Nexus.FacultySuccess@rosalindfranklin.edu for more information about programs, workshops, and consultations.

Workshops and Programs

We regularly offer sustained interactive sessions intended to collectively deepen educator awareness around different topics in teaching and learning, academic writing and leadership in higher education.

Ongoing Services

• Small Group Analysis (SGA)/Focus Groups: A service to collect systematic, constructive and timely feedback (focus-group style) from your students about your course and instruction in the middle of the term.
• Individual Consultations: We consult individually and in small groups on topics related to teaching and learning, academic writing and scholarship, mentoring and leadership.
• Peer Observation/ Teaching Observations: We provide constructive feedback on your teaching and course context, helping you reflect on what is working well in your class and what could be improved.
• Faculty Recognition Initiative: This university-wide initiative allows anyone at RFU to recognize the activities and accomplishments of individual faculty in areas related to teaching, scholarship, leadership, mentoring, service, and upholding the university’s core values.
• Manuscript Development and Proposal Review: We provide feedback on academic manuscripts and grant proposals, reviewing for alignment of research goals or questions, clarity of communication, and structure of evaluation plans and assessments (for education-related projects).

Meet the Team