This article describes selected movements within higher education that communicate one essential point: Faculty must be prepared to lead their institutions through veritable seismic shifts of the very ground on which their institutions are built. To meet these academic and administrative challenges will require the faculty to engage in ongoing professional development. Further, this article is intended to aid the reader in defining faculty development as an intentional set of educational activities designed to equip faculty to grow in their professionalism with the result of being partners in advancing all segments of the institution. When properly designed and implemented, faculty development is a process that will move higher education from where it is to where it is capable of being.