The FACETS project offers

• Insights into the learning differences and expectations of those students representing the millennial generation.

• An electronic archive that offers an array of instructional strategies that more accurately matches the learning histories and experiences of today’s students.

• Information on diverse models of teaching, newer theories of learning, and current research on cognition, memory, and the brain while relating all of these innovations and new knowledge to teaching application.

• Time for full-time teaching faculty and academic staff to explore instructional methods to help diversify and better match lessons to the learning needs of newer generations of students.

• Opportunities to evaluate, expand, or improve current teaching, experiment with new strategies, or refine existing techniques.

• Competitive awards for stipends or release time devoted to researching or implementing changes in teaching.

• Monies for professionally relevant literature and software.

• Incentives to dialog and collaborate with teachers from area high schools, as well as with members from area businesses to gain a better sense of the educational continuum of our students.