The resources below are offered to provide faculty self-service support to continually improve their practice. If you would like to suggest a resource please contact Dr. Hella Jacob.
Beginning in Fall 2026, all course syllabi must include the required institutional elements outlined below. Faculty may use the provided Syllabus Template or create their own syllabus using the Syllabus Requirements Checklist.
Face-to-Face Syllabus Template (Google Doc)
An editable template that incorporates all required syllabus elements and institutional statements.
To use this template: Open the document, then select File → Make a copy to save your own editable version to your Google Drive.
(For fully online courses, please continue to use the existing QM-aligned syllabus template.)
Syllabus Requirements Checklist (PDF)
For faculty who prefer to use their own syllabus format rather than the provided template, this checklist identifies the required elements that must be included.
Optional Syllabus Statements (Google Doc)
A collection of additional, optional statements and notes that faculty may choose to incorporate into their syllabi.
Daemen University expects that all graduates will attain a set of competencies, including Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, and effective Written Communication. These skills are developed in the context of the classroom, where faculty design intentional learning activities that promote skill development, and then assess achievement through course tasks, projects, and papers that are regularly assigned in the courses they teach. This collection of assignments developed of adapted by Daemen faculty was initiated and continually curated by Dr. Intisar Hibschweiler and Dr. Erica Frisicaro-Pawlowski.
- Carnegie Mellon (Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence)
- This site provides a set of principles of learning and teaching based on current research, concrete steps for course design, and strategies for dealing with common teaching problems (student prerequisite skills, poor attendance, participation, etc.).
- University of Michigan (Center for Research on Learning and Teaching)
- This site focuses heavily on research on learning and instruction, and also features a section on multicultural teaching.
- University of Georgia (UGA Center for Teaching and Learning)
- This site focuses on a full-service model of faculty support. See Faculty Services and Programs and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
- University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning)
- This site provides organized teaching guides, downloadable publications, and a video library of faculty teaching across the disciplines.
- Carleton College (Perlman Center for Learning & Teaching)
- This site features a “teaching activity” collection with examples of assignments and learning experiences from courses in various majors.
- Harvard University (Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning)
- The “online resources” section includes links to teaching and learning articles, video examples of active lecture techniques, and a section on research-based teaching.
- Cornell University (Center for Learning and Teaching)
- See “teaching resources” for a variety of teaching-related topics.
- University of Iowa (Center for Teaching)
- See the “teaching materials” section under Resources.
- DePaul University (Teaching Commons)
- See the section on rubrics.
- Learner-Centered Teaching
- The largest resource for learner-centered teaching on the web. Terry Doyle, the site's creator, was the keynote speaker at the 2013 Daemen Learning & Teaching Symposium.
- IDEA Papers
- Visit the collection of short (2-3 page) papers on learning and teaching, and longer (10-20) research papers on best practices in instruction, assessment, and more.
- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Carnegie projects include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, efforts to enhance developmental math, assessing teaching in K-12 and higher education, and much more.
- Faculty Focus
- A collection of timely and practical resources for faculty. Some require subscription or purchase. Other resources are freely available.