Join your teaching peers in these upcoming faculty development offerings from the CSU
Small Changes, Big Impact: TILT toward Student Success
Friday, September 19, 2025
12:30pm-2:30pm
👉 Register from your CSU email.
Want to boost student success with minimal effort? TILT (Transparency in Learning & Teaching) is a simple framework that transforms how students experience courses and other interactions with educators. Research shows that making just two assignments more transparent supports learning while significantly increasing student belonging, confidence, and persistence—and enhances teaching satisfaction. In this hands-on virtual workshop, you'll:
• Discover the research behind TILT's proven impact on student success
• Practice applying the TILT framework to real assignment examples
• Transform your own assignment or interaction protocol using practical TILT strategies
• Leave with tools to immediately implement transparency in your teaching
Perfect for faculty and student support staff who want maximum impact from minimum effort. Come ready to TILT your teaching toward student success!
Open to all student-facing educators in the CSU: faculty, librarians, advisors, counselors, learning support staff, and instructional designers. Questions? Contact csuitl@calstate.edu.
CSU's Got Talent 2025 – Now Open for Zoom Registration!
This year's CSU’s Got Talent series offers a dynamic lineup of webinars featuring CSU alumni, staff, faculty, and industry experts. Sessions are focused on empowering professional and personal growth through topics like empathy, AI, accountability, time management, and Intercultural Creativity®.
Highlighted Topics Include:
- Unmasking fears to unlock potential
- Data literacy and AI decision-making
- Empathy in workplace interactions
- Writing and AI ethics
- Creativity in diverse teams
- Positive accountability and service culture
- Time management for neurodiverse teams
- Conflict transformation
See more information about event here
Fall OCS Professional Development Courses – Registration is Open
Fall Session 1: October 6-26, 2025
Fall Session 2: November 3-23, 2025
Courses Offered Include:
Mental Health Ally Training
This training, facilitated by CSU faculty and offered online, teaches participants to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health challenges and substance use disorders.
Registration for three Fall 2025 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training cohorts is now open. It will remain open until sessions reach capacity and wait lists are full.
Three sessions in October and November for Fall 2025 are offered:
Cohort 1 (20 MORE SPOTS)
Friday, October 17, 2025 (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.)
Cohort 2 (27 MORE SPOTS)
Friday, October 24, 2025 (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.)
Cohort 3 (28 MORE SPOTS)
Friday, November 7, 2025 (9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Friday, November 14, 2025 (9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Register as soon as you can confirm availability, as sessions fill quickly.
Applicants for these sessions will receive confirmation two weeks before the start of the session for which they have signed up.
Use this form to register for the session that best fits your schedule.
To Learn More
Watch this video, see the attached flyer, or visit mentalhealthfirstaid.org.
CSU Online Course Services
The CSU Online Course Services is offering courses on Teaching online with QLT and QM rubrics as well as AI Tools for Teaching & Learning course for FREE to CSU faculty and staff.
Professional Learning Institute on Teaching First-Generation Students (Summer and Fall 2025)
This Institute, developed and facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton and Dr. Maritza Lozano, faculty in the Department of Education Leadership in the College of Education at CSU Fullerton, focuses on evidence-based strategies for teaching and interacting that draw on the strengths of first-generation college students (FGCS). The institute addresses emerging issues and concerns in teaching in digitally enhanced or fully online environments, including building student-instructor relationships and engaging students in different modalities.
Apply now to join a network of faculty across the CSU who have participated in this annual summer institute since 2020.
- Participation in this opportunity involves a commitment that begins with a five-week online professional learning institute in Summer 2025 that meets from June 3 to July 1, and continues in Fall 2025, when participants reflect on their practice as they implement new strategies.
- Those who complete all activities and assignments for both the summer and fall segments will be eligible to receive a $500 professional development stipend.
- Current faculty of any rank or appointment type who have previously taught at least one course in the CSU, and plan to teach in fall 2025, may apply.
- If interest exceeds capacity, priority will be given to those positioned to become advocates for first-generation college students on their campuses.
- Applicants will be notified of acceptance on Friday, April 4.
To apply, complete this form by Friday, March 28. Contact Emily Magruder at csuitl@calstate.edu with questions.
CSU Student Success Analytics Certificate Program
CSU instructional faculty, including all tenured/tenure-track faculty and lecturers are invited to register for the new Course Equity Portal (CEP) Track of the CSU Certificate Program in Student Success Analytics. To find out more about the Course Equity Portal Track for faculty within the CSU Student Success Analytics Program, sign up for the information session on February 11, 2025.