Jul 12, 2024  
Faculty Handbook 2024 - 2025 
    
Faculty Handbook 2024 - 2025

1.2.2 - Academic Support Divisions


The Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Office of Academic Affairs oversees all operations of the academic division, providing administrative oversight, academic leadership, and external representation. The following units are included in the Academic Affairs division.

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning provides leadership, support, and advocacy for initiatives designed to enhance learning through teaching and scholarship. It cultivates a culture of ongoing professional development for faculty effectiveness. The website address for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is https://facultydevelopment.kennesaw.edu/.

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning provides leadership, support, and advocacy for initiatives designed to enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning in all modalities (face-to-face, online, hybrid, and blended). CETL also cultivates a culture of ongoing professional development for faculty effectiveness. CETL has 3 dedicated arms that provide specialized support. Teaching effectiveness (https://facultydevelopment.kennesaw.edu/) provides workshops, webinars, faculty learning communities, GTA training, and special events around research-based pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Digital Learning Innovations (dli.kennesaw.edu) provides support for the design of online and hybrid courses, open education resources, web accessibility, professional development badging and technical tools for content delivery and facilitation. Faculty Development and Recognition (https://facultydevelopment.kennesaw.edu/) provides professional development beyond teaching, in particular leadership development for chairs and administrators, support for the promotion and tenure process, and administers the KSU Faculty award process and the nomination process for the USG teaching awards.

Global Education

Global Education is at the center of Kennesaw State University’s vision and mission for a 21st Century University that is infused with international sophistication and high impact practices that engage students, faculty and the community with our increasingly interconnected and globalized world. Global Education supports student success through international education, local to global community engagement. Global Education also supports faculty and staff inquiry through cross-cultural scholarship, professional development and service while also engaging our external community in global learning, executive education and leadership training and credentialing. Global Education is composed of ten units and a central administration office. Each year, our award-winning division leads a comprehensive array of scholarly, educational and community engagement programs while offering hundreds of international studies programs, courses and educational events. The website address for the Global Education is https://dga.kennesaw.edu/.

University Libraries

The Kennesaw State University Libraries are composed of the Sturgis Library, the Johnson Library, and the Library Repository. The mission of the Kennesaw State University Libraries is to provide excellent services and resources that directly support the University’s efforts to become a world-class comprehensive university. Essential to achieving this mission is a library system that selects, organizes, presents, and preserves resources for the KSU community of faculty, students, and scholars. The website address for the University Libraries is https://library.kennesaw.edu/.