The Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development is the campus hub for faculty development.

The Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development partners with campus colleagues to support all faculty in the development of the interwoven aspects of teaching, scholarship, and service at a liberal arts college. The Center is especially focused on supporting faculty in their work as teachers and teacher-scholars, and the campus in its educational mission to advance student learning through evidence-based teaching. To this end, it offers consultations and programming to support individual faculty across the professional lifecycle, work with departments and programs in their efforts to teach in context, and contribute to the college's culture of teaching and learning.

In addition to serving as a communications hub for the faculty development activities offered across campus, the Endeavor Center offers services for individual faculty as well as departments, programs, and committees. Regular workshops, lunch & learn conversations, course (re)design programming, book groups, confidential consultations, and small funds for teaching squares and other activities are available to individual faculty. Consultations, conversations, and collaborative programs are available to departments, programs, and relevant committees.

Ultimately, the Center contributes to the Rollins College mission by empowering faculty to maintain meaningful professional lives and productive careers, and to practice teaching inspired by the existing research on teaching and learning and the liberal arts ethos.

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Director of the Endeavor Center

Dr. Nancy Chick came to Rollins College in July of 2018. After earning her PhD in 1998, she was a faculty member in English Departments -- first on one of the smallest campuses in the University of Wisconsin System, then at Vanderbilt University, and then at the University of Calgary. During her life as an Assistant, Associate, and then Full Professor, she was a devoted participant in faculty development programming, especially related to teaching and learning, as well as the research and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). As she shifted from being a participant to a facilitator and director of these programs, she took on more leadership roles in faculty development, eventually moving into this work full time in her role at Rollins College.

Nancy has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited a range of publications about teaching, about the results of her SoTL projects, and about SoTL as a field.

For more information, view Nancy's online portfolio at nancychick.com.

Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development

The International House
1000 Holt Avenue # 2712

Telephone:407.646.2704

  • A professional headshot of Nancy Chick.

    Nancy Chick

    Director of the Endeavor Center


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