The following lists a number of professional development opportunities for faculty to enhance their knowledge and skills.
Select a topic below to learn more about available opportunities.
Some departments, schools, or colleges offer professional development and educational opportunities for their own communities (e.g. Berkeley Engineering or Berkeley Haas). This page lists opportunities available to all faculty at UC Berkeley. Check if your school or college has specific opportunities.
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UC Women's Initiative for Professional Development
An experiential professional development program committed to enabling the full participation, success, and advancement of woman-identifying professionals at the University.
UC Managing Implicit Bias Series
The UC Managing Implicit Bias Series is a six-course online training series designed to increase awareness of implicit bias and reduce its impact at the University.
UC Gender Recognition & LIved Name: An Introduction to Gender Awareness
To help build that awareness, this course will introduce users to terms and concepts related to gender and nonbinary identities, as well as best practices for name, pronoun, and title usage.
UC Berkeley Executive Education
Berkeley Executive Education offers 2 to 5-day programs taught by distinguished professional and laddered faculty at the Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley. The team offers open enrollment programs focused on advancing business and management techniques, specifically designed for emerging and advanced executives. Areas of focus include leadership, entrepreneurship, strategy and finance.
The American Cultures Center Creative Discovery Fellows
The CDF program has been built to respond to a core question of anti-racism and social justice education. "How do we design supports for faculty and students in ways that are adaptive, equity-oriented, and foster anti-racism?" The model is a multi-pronged approach that involves working closely with faculty cohorts and providing near-peer support for students.
Technology and Systems Training
The Technology and Systems training program offers professional development opportunities to all campus employees with a results-oriented focus on productivity, process improvement, data management, business intelligence, and automation.
T.R.A.I.L. Prevention & Response Certificate Training
Leadership training for the UC Berkeley campus community (undergrad and grad students, faculty, and staff) to gain skills and tools to prevent and respond to violence and harm using a social justice lens.
Staff Ombuds Office Trainings
The Staff Ombuds Office offers a variety of classes and workshops to help prevent, manage, and resolve conflict in the workplace. Workshops topics include identifying and addressing workplace bullying, collaborating effectively in the workplace, and analyzing and resolving conflict.
Restorative Justice Center Workshops and Consultations
The UC Berkeley Restorative Justice Center (RJ Center) offers mediation and restorative processes in response to conflict and harm. The RJ Center also offers a series of workshops on topics such as unconscious bias, microaggressions or identity harms, restorative approaches, anti-racism, and affinity groups.
ReNUWIt Inclusive Excellence Initiative
The Inclusive Excellence Initiative aims to support graduate students, researchers, and faculty in creating more inclusive environments in higher education – environments where all individuals feel welcome, respected, and that their contributions are valued. Resources include suggested steps that students, researchers, and faculty can take to improve the climate in research and classroom spaces, and in peer relationships among graduate students.
Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages They Send
A written resource on to understand and recognize examples of microaggressions and the messages they send.
People & Culture Inclusive Leadership Academy
The purpose of the PCLA is to provide an intentional and meaningful learning experience that will equip leaders with the content knowledge, leadership behaviors, and support to effectively lead our diverse staff community and create a culture of belonging and inclusion.
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
NCFDD partners with UC Berkeley to provide professional development and external mentoring for faculty. They host bootcamps and workshops on various topics to support faculty success.
Multicultural Education Program workshops for faculty
The Multicultural Education Program offers workshops for instructors on creating inclusive classrooms for diverse student populations, revealing climate issues, and understanding and addressing unconscious bias.
Gender and/or LGBTQ+ workshops
The Gender Equity Resource Center offers workshops on gender, sexuality, sexual violence, relationship violence and healthy relationships, creating inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ communities, understanding masculinity and men, and combating sexism and misogyny.
Faculty Leadership Academy
This leadership development program is intended for tenured faculty who are interested in developing skills and knowledge for leadership on the Berkeley campus.
Faculty Dialogue Series: Creating Inclusive Classrooms
As part of the Campus Climate Initiative, the dialogues focus on both analysis and action, helping create classroom environments which are more fully welcoming and responsive to students with diverse backgrounds and identities.
Executive Leadership Academy
The Executive Leadership Academy (ELA) is designed for individuals from all backgrounds, who are currently serving in administrative positions in higher education, and who are interested in preparing themselves for appointments to executive positions such as dean, vice president, provost, president, and chancellor. It offers a five-day intensive training experience and is guided by a select faculty team, comprised of over 25 senior-level higher education executives.
DSP Resources for Faculty
Curated resources for faculty on teaching students with disabilities, including providing accommodations, making accessible classrooms and course materials, and inclusive design.
Division of Equity and Inclusion consulting and training
Organizational consulting, facilitation and training to help departments with a broad range of emerging challenges and opportunities, including addressing unconscious bias, addressing and improving departmental climate, and strategic planning for equity, inclusion and diversity
DEIB Scholar in Residence Program
The program features professional expert Bryant K. Smith, who will provide coaching, consultation, and training/workshop facilitation for interested units.
Creating a Healthy Virtual Environment Toolkit
A toolkit of resources for creating a healthy, inclusive virtual environment.
Counter Potential Unconscious bias
In this course, diversity expert Stacey Gordon helps you recognize and acknowledge your own biases so that you can identify them when making decisions, and prevent yourself from making calls based on a biased viewpoint.
CORA Webinars
Webinar topics include employing equity-minded and culturally-affirming teaching in remote settings, racial bias and microaggressions, and serving students with basic needs insecurities.
Conversations on Transformation Video Series (Othering and Belonging Institute)
Conversations on Transformation features discussions about belonging, network weaving, and conflict transformation.
Communication, Zoom Events & Disability Access
A presentation by UC Berkeley Disability Access and Compliance covering best practices for communicating with disabled people, making presentations and distributed materials most accessible, and the UC Berkeley process for ensuring legally compliant Zoom meetings.
Center for Urban Education
CUE’s Racial Equity Tools aim to change the minds, hearts, and practices of faculty, staff, and leaders—all of whose collaboration is essential to achieve racial equity in higher education.
Center for Teaching & Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning partners with campus educators -- including faculty, students, and staff -- to inspire, enrich, and innovate Berkeley's collective teaching and learning community.
Center for Creative Leadership Workshops
Workshops to develop leadership skills in sustaining your DEI initiatives, increasing psychological safety at work, and leading in unstable times.
CEJCE Resources for Classrooms and Groups
Resources for helping professors, GSIs, instructors, facilitators and others responsible for educational environments create inclusive and welcoming spaces for everyone in the Cal community, and in particular for LGBTQ+ students.
Berkeley People Management: Executive Coaching Program
This experiential learning program is designed to foster your growth as a people manager through real-time feedback, accountability, and support.
Berkeley People Management series and certificate program
Provides an opportunity to grow and develop leadership skills through four certificate tracks.
Berkeley Faculty Link Program Events
The Faculty Link events are facilitated by Faculty Core Advisors to discuss a variety of topics related to both scholarship and campus/department/unit climate. They provide opportunities for meaningful discussion and career support, and foster connections and community.
Berkeley Equity Training Series
The Berkeley Equity Training Series (BETS) at UC Berkeley, is an intentional sequence of three-hour topical sessions facilitated by subject matter experts and equity practitioners.
Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the College Classroom: A rubric and resource guide for instructors
This tool aims to support instructors in developing anti-racist approaches to course design and teaching practices in the undergraduate and graduate setting. It offers an accessible, and user-friendly entry-point for instructors interested in considering how their instructional choices impact student outcomes.
Addressing Microaggresions in the Classroom
A written resource on the definition of microaggressions, examples of microaggressions, and how to address micoaggressions in the classroom.
Accessible Syllabus
This website is dedicated to helping instructors build a syllabus that plans for diverse student abilities and promotes an atmosphere in which students feel comfortable discussing their unique abilities.
Academic Innovations Studio Events
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) collaborates with faculty, departments, and other academic partners to innovate and improve teaching at Berkeley. Event topics include fostering a community of collaborative inquiry, and digital community building and preventing hazing.