The HBCU Faculty Development Network
This network seeks to develop pedagogies and processes for faculty at HBCU to enhance student learning. Utilization of technology, sharing teaching innovations, promoting the connections between classrooms and community service, and fostering collaborations amongst faculty are some of the organization’s many goals. These goals are facilitated through symposiums, summer institutes, and publications throughout the year. Such a network provides a sustained space amongst faculty for the evolution of strategies and interventions that are specific to the HBCU and African American contexts. (Added September 2008)

The Leadership Alliance National Symposium (LANS)
The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 29 of this nation's leading research and teaching acadmic institutions, including minority-serving institutions, all dedicated to improving the participation of underrepresented students in graduate studies and Ph.D. programs and, ultimately, in research professions in the acamic, public, and private sectors. The Leadership Alliance National Symposium (LANS) is the annual focal point for the summer research activities that brings together a community of young Alliance scholars, faculty, administrators, selected private sector representatives, federal officials and private individuals.

Faculty Resource Network at New York University
The Faculty Resource Network (FRN) at New York University is an award-winning, nationally-recognized faculty development initiative whose mission is to improve the quality of teaching and learning at its member and affiliate institutions by providing opportunities for faculty development and cross-institutional collaboration.

Center for the Integration of Research and Teaching, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The CIRTL Diversity Institute brings together a critical mass of scholars ("CIRTL Scholars") to produce materials and resources that will reform Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) higher education based on the idea that STEM students' learning is enhanced when classes, laboratories, and discussion sections foster engagement of all students irrespective of race, gender, or socioeconomic background. The objective of the Diversity Institute is to create and disseminate a resource base that will enable faculty and future faculty to enhance diversity in STEM fields by creating inclusive classrooms.

Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy The first project of the Shared Futures: Learning for a World Lived in Common, Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy, supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, is designed to work with colleges and universities to develop societal, civic, and global knowledge in their graduates by linking liberal education and democracy in the context of our interdependent but unequal world.

Boundaries and Borderlands: The Search for Recognition and Community in America, Association of American Colleges and Universities The centerpiece of this two-year project is a ten-day faculty development institute designed to deepen and expand campus work on diversity and faculty capacity building. The project is part of the Hewlett Foundation's "Pluralism and Unity" initiative. It will offer resources to inform curricular and co-curricular campus work about diversity, democracy, and intergroup dialogues. View seminar descriptions and bibliographies for the Summer 2000 institute.

Teaching American Pluralism in the Humanities, the University of Washington This project builds on major efforts at the University of Washington and across the nation that engage humanities scholars in the comparative, interdisciplinary study of American racial/ethnic groups in order to develop new conceptual frameworks for teaching. These new frameworks will help elucidate both the connections and the conflicts that arise in forging the narrative of the "making of America" and attempting to redefine a national identity more representative of multiple cultural heritages.

Opportunities -- Summer Institutes

The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication This institute offers professional development opportunities for people working in education, student services, training, counseling, business, and consulting in domestic diversity and international/intercultural contexts. Participants can choose from more than 40 in-depth workshops and seminars, which include topics such as Teaching Intercultural Communication, Developing Leadership for Campus Diversity, Training Design for International/Multicultural Programs, Methods of Intercultural Training, Effective Leadership in International Educational Exchange, and Counseling Across Cultures.