
HBCU FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
33rd Annual
Conference
Strengthening Excellence at HBCUs:
Developing Faculty, Staff, and Academic Leaders
for What’s Now and What’s Next
October 29-31, 2026
Charlotte, North Carolina
Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark Hotel
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The HBCU Faculty Development Network Annual Conference brings together faculty, staff, academic leaders, and higher education professionals from across the HBCU community for three days of learning, collaboration, and connection.
This year’s conference, Strengthening Excellence at HBCUs: Developing Faculty, Staff, and Academic Leaders for What’s Now and What’s Next, focuses on practical strategies, shared solutions, and meaningful conversations that strengthen teaching, leadership, faculty and staff development, and institutional effectiveness.
Join colleagues in Charlotte to exchange ideas, build relationships, and return to your institution with new perspectives, practical resources, and strategies you can put to work.


Fri, Nov 10
|Virtual Event
November Lunch & Learn: Conference Proceedings
Join us as Drs. Laurette Foster and Donald Collins of the HBCU Faculty Development Network discuss the unique publishing opportunity for presenters at the 2023 HBCU FDN Annual Conference.
Time & Location
Nov 10, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Virtual Event
About the event
This webinar is part of our monthly Lunch & Learn series. The session will be an overview of a unique publishing opportunity for 2023 HBCU FDN Conference presenters. This opportunity is provided as a part of a collaboration between the HBCU Faculty Development Network and Myers Education Press.