Brigham Young University
Faculty Center


Ideas for Collaborative Activities with Faculty Colleagues



Suggested by the Faculty Center

Service Activities
  1. If you have a committee assignment, seek ways to make a more positive contribution to the committee work: actively participate in the meetings, follow-up on assignments, provide feedback on written materials the committee produces.
  2. Serve your colleagues in a professional association. Assist with conference planning, review proposals, review articles for a journal, serve as a referee of creative work in your area of expertise. Seek advice from others to improve your ability to give professional service.
  3. Work with colleagues to develop a service-learning component in your classes.

Collaborative Teaching Activities
  1. Observe a colleague's teaching and invite the colleague to observe yours. Discuss with each other what you are learning.
  2. Actively participate in Department/College/Faculty Center brown bags, seminars, and workshops on teaching.
  3. Establish a regular time to discuss specific readings on various teaching issues with colleagues.
  4. Team-teach with a colleague. Regularly discuss what you are learning with each other. Gather feedback and together plan ways to improve the course.
  5. Work with a colleague in your department to explore ways student learning can be enhanced in the department. Stimulate discussions with other colleagues in the department.

Collaborative Scholarship Activities
  1. Collaborate on a scholarship project or creative activity with a colleague.
  2. Invite colleagues to review your written work and give suggestions for improvement. Offer to review your colleagues' written work and provide helpful feedback.
  3. Establish a regular time to discuss specific disciplinary readings with colleagues.
  4. Seek ways to collaborate on scholarship with colleagues outside your discipline.
  5. Regularly discuss your current research interests with colleagues in your department or college.
  6. Collaborate with a colleague in presenting scholarly work.
  7. Engage in collaborative activities with colleagues in a professional association.

Activities to Build Collegiality
  1. Find ways to get to know more members of your department. Read their vitae, observe their classes, visit with them in their offices.
  2. Have lunch often with faculty colleagues.
  3. Actively participate in department and/or college seminars.
  4. Organize a faculty discussion or brown bag on a topic of interest. (The Faculty Center is willing to assist, if requested.)
  5. Participate regularly in physical fitness or cultural activities with colleagues.


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