This article investigates and reflects on the continuing teacher professional development policies designed and implemented by the Faculty of Humanities at the Northeast National University (UNNE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their implications for institutional development. The theoretical framework used is interdisciplinary. The methodology applied is qualitative and draws on contributions from Discourse Analysis and the Interpretive paradigm. The corpus was compiled from (1) institutional regulations governing the virtualization of the teaching and learning process at both UNNE and Faculty of Humanities levels, and (2) the perspectives of Faculty authorities, professors from the Department of Educational Sciences, and the program coordinators. The data collection instrument used during fieldwork in 2024 was a semi-structured interview. The conclusions indicate that during the period under study the Faculty of Humanities designed and implemented the professional development program in and on virtual education. This free training program was aimed at strengthening the digital skills of faculty members in this academic unit. The implementation of this training policy has provided institutional support to faculty members in designing innovative and context-specific pedagogical approaches, supporting the educational trajectories of university students,while laying the groundwork for the development of fully online and/or blended learning in undergraduate and graduate programs.