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Faculty Learning Communities

We offer Faculty Learning Communities and other forms of cohorted professional development each year in the Faculty Center.  These trainings provide a unique opportunity for faculty to engage in an important project, learn something new, and connect with colleagues. 

Fall 2025

Call for Applications 

GenAI College Representatives 

Fall 2025 

 

The Faculty Center invites applications for Generative AI (GenAI) College Representatives. This is a specialized training program that is part of the Faculty Center’s Innovative Teaching with GenAI: Designing Curriculum for the Future initiative, funded by the CSU-wide AI Educational Innovations Challenge (AIEIC) grant. This initiative is designed to support faculty in addressing the evolving challenges of teaching and learning in an era where Generative AI tools are both widely accessible to students and increasingly integrated into the workplace.  

GenAI College Representatives will receive training on key issues and topics about GenAI and its implications for teaching and learning in higher education as well as receive guidance on best practices for developing and delivering faculty-to-faculty professional development and support. Faculty training will include support for developing college and/or discipline-specific training sessions and workshops about the role of GenAI in higher education and beyond to support curricular innovation.  

We are seeking 2-3 representatives from each college/division (i.e. CoBA, CSTEM, CHABSS, CEHHS, Library) for a total of 12 faculty participants. As a representative of your college or division, you will adapt and expand the training you receive to meet the needs of your college and/or discipline by considering issues that distinguish the teaching and learning experience(s) in your fields. You will also share your experience and expertise to shape discussions with faculty peers across campus to develop a broader community of practice. 

Applicants for this training program should already have some familiarity with GenAI; the purpose of this training is not to support the individual faculty member’s curriculum development, but to provide guidance on how to facilitate training and support for your fellow faculty peers at ±¬ÁÏÉçÇø on an important and time sensitive topic in teaching and learning.   

Time Commitment and Details: 

In Fall 2025 GenAI Faculty College Representatives will receive advanced training through multiple modalities including access to subscription-based course modules on OneHE and through in-person and in-real time sessions delivered by the Faculty Center. 

 Training will cover topics such as but not limited to: 

    • GenAI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPTedu) 
    • GenAI’s impact on students’ critical thinking and learning of threshold concepts.   
    • Ethical considerations (collaboration, citation, plagiarism, fair use, bias, climate impact, etc.) 
    • Curriculum design strategies that center the learning process  
    • Key debates about AI in higher education nationwide 
    • Principles of professional development and how to design training sessions for faculty peers  

Faculty will develop materials for peer-to-peer trainings at ±¬ÁÏÉçÇø on topics may include but are not limited to: 

    • Key features, drawbacks, and misconceptions about GenAI tools in higher education 
    • Safe and ethical use of GenAI in the classroom and beyond 
    • Considerations for curriculum redesign in the age of GenAI 
    • Creating GenAI-integrated assignments and assessments 
    • Creating GenAI-resistant assignments and assessments 

The time commitment for Fall 2025 is 20 hours which includes attending trainings and completing assignments (such as developing training materials for use within the representatives' home college and/or discipline). At least 6 hours must be attendance at synchronous and/or in-person sessions offered by the Faculty Center.  

There is a mandatory onboarding session to kickstart this training that will be offered on Tuesday September 30, 2025 from 12:30-2:00 and Wednesday October 1, 2025 from 12:30-2:00—representatives must attend one of these kick-off sessions in-person in its entirety. 

Compensation for Fall 2025: $1000 training stipend for faculty who attend the mandatory on-boarding session and successfully complete and attend at least 6 sessions in real time and complete all assigned online modules and submit all required curriculum redesign activities and training development activities. 

Faculty who successfully complete this training program will be eligible to apply for Spring 2026 paid opportunities to deliver trainings at ±¬ÁÏÉçÇø via the Faculty Center. Completion of this training program is not a guarantee of hire for Spring 2026. 

Eligibility 

Open to tenure-line faculty and lecturer faculty with a 3-year contract who will be on contract with a Unit 3 appointment in Fall 2025.  

Candidates from any college are welcome to apply; balance across colleges will be considered to ensure broad campus impact. The Dean’s office of each applicant’s home college will participate in the review of applicant’s materials. 

Strong applicants will already have a working knowledge of GenAI and have experience utilizing GenAI tools in their teaching and curriculum development. 

To Apply 

 

Questions? 

Contact: 

  • Dr. Ruoxi Li, Associate Director for Teaching & Learning – rli@csusm.edu 

Additional Information  

Only Unit 3 faculty members who will be on contract with an existing Unit 3 appointment during the entire time frame of the training or professional development opportunity are eligible to be considered for a stipend. Faculty may not request or accept professional development and/or training under this program unless they are on active pay status as a faculty bargaining unit employee. Summer stipends can only be offered to faculty who will be employed the preceding spring and subsequent fall semesters. 

Faculty are limited to a maximum of $10,000 in stipends for faculty training and professional development per fiscal year. Faculty cannot accept an offer for a stipend that will cause them to exceed this $10,000 annual limit.