Thank you for visiting InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry (FM) Catalyst page. We are excited you have an interest in seeing a community of faculty begin or grow on your campus!

A dictionary defines catalysts as “agents that initiate or speed significant action.” InterVarsity Faculty Ministry Catalysts are just that. They:

• Believe Christian faculty on campus play a central role in the redemption of the university and desire to be leaders in this process.
• Are persons of character, demonstrating reliance on the Lord and vision for being used by God in the lives of faculty.
• Seek to engage faculty and the university in culturally relevant ways that respect and affirm academic vocations under the Lordship of Christ, and have some experience being “salt” and “light” on their campus.
• Take initiative in personal relationships and commit themselves to working toward establishing or developing a faculty community.
• Share the InterVarsity Doctrinal Basis and the InterVarsity Faculty Ministry Mission Statement.
• Commit to partnering with other Faculty Ministry Catalysts in this endeavor.

We hope this describes you! If so, we are committed to doing everything possible to come alongside and serve you, as you seek to serve faculty and the campus in this way.

We have gathered together several resources below to get you started. To help you further, we have created a private, password-protected Faculty Ministry Forum for Catalysts and others interested in ministering to faculty on their campus. In this forum, you will find even more helpful materials, as well as a way to connect with others interested in Faculty Ministry across the country. You will need a login and password for that site — so please contact us with your name, email address, and which campus(es) you currently serve or plan on serving, and we will send you a username, password, and a link to the forum.

A few resources to help you get started:

• Faculty Catalyst Portfolio—a collection of resources, readings, and sample activities that will help you begin to establish a faculty community on your campus
• Faculty Community Rationale — with reasons Christian faculty should be excited to form and grow a community of Christian faculty on campus, written by a professor who has led a faculty community for several decades now
• Faculty as Salt and Light: Models of Ministry — 24 specific ways faculty have sought to be a redemptive influcence on their campuses, food for thought as you consider ways to begin or grow a faculty community
• The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities’ Virtual Center for Faculty Development — excellent resource materials for the Christian academic (though designed for faculty at faith-based institutions, much of the material is equally helpful for faculty at secular colleges and universities)