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Career Development and Support Programs

The Office of the Provost offers a variety of programs that provide faculty the tools to do their best work. These programs and workshops are designed to enhance faculty career advancement and to promote well-being. All Office of the Provost events and programs are published in the Office of the Provost Events Calendar.

For questions about career development and support programming, contact Joan Marie Johnson, Director for Faculty, at faculty@northwestern.edu.

Faculty career development and support programs offered by the Office of the Provost during the 2022-23 academic year
Date Event Target participants
Sept. 5 and 7, 2023 New Faculty Welcome New faculty
Sept. 6, 2023 New Chairs Welcome New department chairs
Sept. 12, 2023 Mid-Career Faculty Institute Program Tenured associate professors from all schools
Oct. 3, 2023 Looking 101 with The Block Museum of Art - New and Early Career Faculty Institute New and early career faculty
Oct. 5, 2023 Ethics and Speculation in the Age of AI
 All faculty
Oct. 18, 2023 Leading and Managing Others - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
Oct. 23, 2023 Supporting Children's Mental Health: The Family Institute Webinar and Discussion All faculty
Oct. 24, 2023 Faculty Family Night at the Dearborn Observatory All faculty
Oct. 25, 2023 Navigating Chronic Illness: A Faculty Well-Being Conversation All faculty
Nov. 8, 2023 Faculty Search Best Practices - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
Nov. 15, 2023 Finding Synergy between Your Teaching and Research - New and Early Career Faculty Institute New and early career faculty
Jan. 10, 2024 Strategic Planning 101 - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
Jan. 17, 2024 Navigating Tenure - New and Early Career Faculty Institute New and early career faculty
Feb. 14, 2024 Managing Up, Down, and Across - New and Early Career Faculty Institute New and early career faculty
Feb. 21, 2024 Chair’s Role in Developing, Promoting and Retaining Faculty - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
March 6, 2024 Faculty Service - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
April 3, 2024 Leading Your Faculty - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors
May 8, 2024 Civil Rights / Title IX Compliance - Faculty Leaders Series Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors

Ongoing Programs

Faculty Mentorship Programs

Faculty mentoring takes place in multiple forms, including one-on-one relationships between individuals and group-based mentoring, and includes the mentoring of faculty colleagues, postdoctoral trainees and students. Many departments and schools offer formal mentoring programs for early career faculty. The Office of the Provost offers small group mentoring for new and early career faculty through the Provost's Small Group Faculty Mentoring Program. The Graduate School also offers training for faculty who mentor graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.

Media Engagement Training

Media relations experts from Northwestern’s Office of Global Marketing and Communications host training sessions on everything you need to know about dealing with the media, from how to prepare for interviews to how to best position your work so that journalists want to tell your story.

Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching

Among its many resources, the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching offers the Northwestern Principles of Inclusive Teaching, supported by accessible strategies and case studies that instructors can use to create and sustain inclusive learning environments.

Past Programs