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Faculty Week: Templates, Guides, and other Resources

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The Faculty Week App

The Faculty Week app is here to help you smoothly prep, run, and wrap up the week.

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Express Your Appreciation

Faculty carry a lot of responsibilities. They conduct research, teach classes, serve on administrative councils, advise student organizations, and much more.

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Gather to Pray

During Faculty Week, we want to show our support and appreciation for all faculty do by praying for them as a chapter.

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The One-on-One: Choose Your Own Adventure

The one-on-one is centerpiece of the week.

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Faculty Week Hub

You’ll find a variety of sources on this page to help you prep, run, and wrap up Faculty Week. Make sure to download the Faculty Week app, which includes to-do lists for before, during, and after the week!

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Create a Gameplan for Partnership with your Chapter Advisor

Here's a quick list of recommendations in case you're wondering what-to-do and when. Thank you for your consistent and prayerful leadership.

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Finding a Chapter Advisor

Part 2 of 2. So, you've met with a few faculty and you need to designate a Chapter Advisor. Here's a practical "how-to" process.

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Facilitating Faculty Prayer at a Community College

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An Interview with Dr. Tony Musumba

Faculty Ministry Associate Director Deb Clark shares an interview with a long-time friend and ministry partner, Dr. Tony Musumba. They met years ago at a missions conference held in Kenya when Tony was a student. It has been a joy to observe his journey in the academy and ministry over the years. Tony, his wife, Alice, and their family have attended several faculty conferences and I wanted to to share here some of Tony’s enthusiasm for ministry.

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Establishing a Faculty Fellowship: The BFF Story

When GFM Boston became its own area, we engaged in a strategic planning process to discern the potential for graduate student, international, and faculty ministry. As Area Director, I had the least amount of faith for faculty ministry. My experience with faculty over the years had not been promising. It all felt impossible then. But now, I have hope.

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Habits of Grace

Through a challenging year, Professor Rachel Ferguson moves from an intellectual engagement with the Christian faith to a fuller understanding of discipleship, embracing new practices to truly dwell in Christ, leading to the spiritual transformation she needed, and that we all deeply desire.

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Lunch with a Purpose

Check out the video of our live, interactive, online faculty event using Zoom video conferencing that was held on Thursday, November 1, 2018. This Lunch with a Purpose features Kathy Tuan-MacLean, PhD, National Director of Faculty Ministry, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.

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Bringing Hope to Campus

What is the crucial contribution of Christian faculty to the university today? What essential gift does the university long for – even if only in an inchoate way? What unique offering can we make to the life of the academy?

Hope. Only Christians can offer hope.

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A Pregnant Pause: An Advent Devotional

As we enter Advent on December 3rd, we would like to invite faculty and students to enjoy a free visual devotional experience as you spend time alone with God this Christmas season. This weekly devotional experience, created by lnterVarsity staff minister, Bette Lynn Dickinson, features a beautifully hand-painted original series, Scriptures, prayers and questions to guide you through the days that lead to our Savior's birth.

May God speak to us and fill us with the hope that was born that first Christmas. Learn more and download the complete Advent series.

InterVarsity Press Book Discounts for Professors

After you register with InterVarsity Press for a professor account, any books you order are available at 40% off the retail price, and examination or desk copies of books you may use in a course are available free of charge (with some restrictions). InterVarsity Press provides resources to serve you well in every area of your life!

Dreams for the Academy

Faithful faculty can and must have a powerfully redemptive influence on colleges and universities, and it is in this work that I want to set out four dreams I have for academia.

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How Can Academia Serve the Church?

Dr. Calvin DeWitt explores his work as an academic and the role his expertise plays in the Christian Reformed Church.

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Faculty Ministry Writers' Guidelines

We invite your submissions to the Faculty Ministry website as a valuable member of our team. Fellow faculty and staff can benefit from your insight, encouragement, and experience.

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Faculty Conference: Children and Families

We design our faculty conferences to be welcoming for children and families. Academic events are rarely, if ever, family-friendly, and we desire our conferences to be times for restoration for the entire family. Below are some comments and stories from parents who have attended previous faculty conferences.

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