MacEwan University is the perfect place for anyone interested in life-long learning and that includes our MacEwan staff!
Education, lifelong learning and the pursuit of excellence are at the heart of MacEwan’s values for all employees to enhance teaching, learning, scholarly activity, leadership, and our many professional and technical skills and abilities.
Faculty Commons fosters excellence and innovation in teaching and scholarly activity at MacEwan. The Commons connects faculty to resources, to students, to scholarly and professional communities, and to one another.
Faculty Commons embodies the university's commitment to create community and provide a wide range of services for educators. The Commons is designed to support all forms of professional development in the areas of academic integrity, curriculum development and design, faculty development and evaluation, educational technology and research.
The Faculty Commons promotes collaboration and enhances the educational experience for both faculty and students. Check out their website at http://facultycommons.macewan.ca for more information on the professional development of our faculty!
We are excited about the many options available to MacEwan employees in our pursuit of excellence, both personally and professionally.
MacEwan provides professional development in the areas of:
- Training and development, including orientation, on-the-job training, and in –service programs, workshops and networking activities.
- Job enrichment through participation in special projects, professional memberships, committee work, secondments, transfers and promotions.
- Professional Development funding available to expand our education and fulfill our career goals through courses, seminars, workshops and conferences.
- Tuition fee funding so we can access hundreds of noncredit professional and personal development courses offered on a part-time basis as well as programming for university and college preparation courses.
- Library access to all of our four campus libraries so we can stay current and satisfy our curiosity on the many diverse resources that we offer to our students!
This learning culture is part of our total compensation package offered to employees of the university - "we learn while we earn".
