Faculty Development
The Monarch Humanities Internship Academy offers faculty training and support, including resources for faculty development aimed at promoting engagement and advancing work-based learning in the Arts & Letters community.
Workshops
Explore specific aspects of work-based learning.
Intensives
Integrate work-based learning principles into Humanities curricula through tailored workshops.
Modules
Gain access to comprehensive work-based learning module content for enriched educational experiences.
Class Visits
Invite an Academy representative to your class for insights on work-based learning opportunities.
Faculty Development Summer 2025
During the Summer of 2025, the Monarch Humanities Internship Academy (MHIA) Faculty Development team supported 44 faculty across the College of Arts & Letters through a robust series of workshops designed to advance work-based learning (WBL) integration in the humanities.
Faculty participated in a range of targeted and scaffolded offerings, from introductory sessions on low-stakes assignments and ePortfolio reflection to intensive multi-part series focused on career readiness and inclusive pedagogy. The Humanities at Work workshop series guided faculty in aligning their course content with NACE Career Readiness Competencies, drafting skill-building assignments, and mapping their curriculum using the Explore–Prepare–Apply framework. Meanwhile, Humanities in Action connected participants with industry professionals and alumni to illuminate real-world skill expectations. As implementation from the Summer 2025 cohort begins this fall, MHIA’s Faculty Development team will continue offering consultations, resources, and coaching to support long-term curricular integration.
Faculty generated a wide array of deliverables that will directly benefit students in the coming academic year, including revised syllabi, career preparation assignments that relate to disciplinary skills and knowledge, and plans for over 30 classroom visits or enrichment activities supported by MHIA. Faculty feedback underscored several key takeaways: structured reflection strengthens student readiness; short, real-world-inspired assignments are both flexible and impactful; and inclusive, equity-centered design is essential.
As implementation from the Summer 2025 cohort begins this fall, MHIA’s Faculty Development team will continue offering consultations, resources, and coaching to support long-term curricular integration. Together, these efforts demonstrate how Humanities faculty are reimagining their classrooms as launchpads for students preparing for their internships!
WBL Faculty Spotlight
The Faculty Spotlight showcases instructors in the Humanities who are advancing student success through work-based learning (WBL). These faculty are integrating reflective, learner-centered, and equity-minded practices that connect classroom learning to real-world application.
By designing inclusive assignments, fostering professional reflection, and building pathways to internships and community engagement, they demonstrate how the Humanities prepare students for meaningful careers and civic life after graduation.
Faculty Testimonials
“ I always appreciate the chance for generative or community based inquiry, right? Because you can study methodology all you want by yourself, but until then, you practice that peer review until you hear what other people are doing. It's just that kind of the generative nature of community based inquiry is so invaluable. And that was again, I think the key takeaway and the key benefit from the workshop series”.
"The ‘accompanied’ work time is appreciated; the handouts are perfectly designed to help participants know how to make the most of our time and information. Love the concrete examples, helped me take what I already do and tweak it to foreground WBL."
“Even though I am an internship coordinator and even though I already incorporate some professional development activities into one of my courses, I found fresh vision in this workshop. I will refocus and work with my department to increase focus on WBL”.
"Learning from colleagues in other departments about the role of WBL in their classes, and I love the discussion surrounding the NACE competencies!
“The chief utility of this workshop, besides providing an opportunity to engage with my colleagues, was interrogating my own experience with WBL to see how I can make my in-class experience more engaging, accessible and provide more durable retention through incorporating greater reflection”.
“it helped me to crystalize the importance of WBL, and honestly to understand how much I already incorporate this pedagogy into my class. It helped me feel confident in integrating a showcase ePortfolio into my course which I have not yet had the chance to do”
Past Workshops
Fall
2024
Connecting Classroom to Career II: Reflecting on WBL within Humanities Learning Communities
This follow-up workshop built on the previous Learning Communities targeted session by creating an interactive space for faculty to further collaborate on integrating the Monarch Humanities Internship Academy and work-based learning into their Learning Community courses. Participants revisited work-based learning activities, shared progress, and discussed how Academy representatives can continue supporting courses through class visits or enrichment events.
Fall
2024
Charting Career Paths
Co-sponsored with leadership from our partners in the Center for Faculty Development at ODU, this workshop was designed to help faculty embed additional professional development opportunities into their courses. By integrating career-focused activities and discussions early on, faculty can better prepare students for successful work-based learning experiences (WBLE). This workshop explored strategies for weaving career readiness into the curriculum, ensuring that students develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to navigate their future careers.
Summer 2024
Connecting Classroom to Career: Empowering Learning Communities with Work-Based Learning
This workshop introduced Learning Community and Living Learning faculty to the resources offered by the Humanities Internship Academy. Participants were tasked with integrating a professional development module into their Learning Community, fostering student engagement with work-based learning content through low stakes assignments, and inviting Academy representatives to pitch paid humanities internship opportunities.
Summer 2024
Shaping the Academy: Design Thinking for Arts & Letters Internship Coordinators
This design thinking inspired virtual workshop gathered information by the experts on work-based learning. This workshop marked the inaugural step in our Mellon grant-funded faculty development initiative. By engaging Arts & Letters Internship Coordinators, we aimed to leverage existing expertise to inform the overall design of MHIA faculty development efforts.
Summer 2024
Humanities at Work: Work-Based Learning in the Classroom - Internship Intensive Workshop Series
Over the course of 4 virtual sessions, participating faculty explored and prioritized methods for integrating work-based learning into their courses. Focused attention was given to preparing students for work-based learning experiences. This intensive and multi-session workshop aimed to cultivate a culture of work-based learning within the Arts & Letters community, ensuring sustained engagement and impact throughout the duration of the grant period.
Faculty WBL Resources
Faculty Development Leaders
Director of Faculty
Development, MHIA
Alison
Lietzenmayer
Master Lecturer and University Distinguished Teacher, Department of Communication & Theatre Arts
Faculty Development
& Research Graduate Assistant