Effective faculty development programs are essential to improving student success and achieving institutional goals. Yet designing and implementing successful faculty development within FYE programs remain a challenge. We examine these challenges and discuss how a redesigned on-campus faculty development effort, connected to an online course on evidence-based teaching practices, address critical FYE faculty development issues. Our study of this redesigned program indicates faculty were motivated to improve their teaching effectiveness and employ their new knowledge in classrooms and gained confidence in doing so. Our faculty development program model may be adapted for use for large and diverse FYE programs.