{"id":31,"date":"2025-10-02T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:35:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mission<\/h3>\n<p>Boston University Faculty Development advances the intellectual growth and professional development of faculty by offering impactful educational opportunities across rank, discipline, and college. As part of the University&#8217;s mission to advance faculty excellence, BU Faculty Development will partner closely with schools and colleges to foster faculty growth and excellence in support of scholarship, career success, and teaching.<\/p>\n<h3>Operating Principles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty\u00a0Development\u00a0contributes\u00a0actively to\u00a0creating\u00a0a positive professional\u00a0environment\u00a0that\u00a0fosters retention for our world-class faculty.<\/li>\n<li>The One BU philosophy\u00a0informs Faculty Development\u2019s\u00a0engagement\u00a0with the entirety of the faculty community.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Development customizes its programming\u00a0to address\u00a0the unique needs of faculty\u00a0at the\u00a0early, mid, and senior career\u00a0stages.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Development strives to provide culturally responsive programming relevant to a range of needs related to research, pedagogy, mentoring, funding opportunities, leadership development, and community building.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Development\u00a0prioritizes partnering with\u00a0BU\u00a0colleges, academic centers, and offices to maximize its role within a vast network of resources for supporting the needs of faculty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Boston University Faculty Development advances the intellectual growth and professional development of faculty by offering impactful educational opportunities across rank, discipline, and college. As part of the University&#8217;s mission to advance faculty excellence, BU Faculty Development will partner closely with schools and colleges to foster faculty growth and excellence in support of scholarship, career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12480,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}