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. 15, 2023 |
Finding Synergy between Your Teaching and Research - New and Early Career Faculty Institute |
New and early career faculty |
Nov. 29, 2023 |
Faculty Mentoring Training Program Session I |
STEM faculty |
Jan. 8, 2024 |
Faculty Mentoring Training Program Session II |
STEM 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. 12, 2024 |
Faculty Mentoring Training Program Session III |
STEM 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 4, 2024 |
Faculty Service - Faculty Leaders Series |
Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors |
April 2, 2024 |
Public Scholarship & Media Relations - New and Early Career Faculty Institute |
New and early career faculty |
April 3, 2024 |
Leading Your Faculty - Faculty Leaders Series |
Department chairs, division chiefs, and faculty directors |
April 3, 2024 |
Faculty Family Night at the Dearborn Observatory |
All faculty |
April 4, 2024 |
Caring from Afar: An Eldercare Webinar |
All faculty |
April 11, 2024 |
Yes, And! Communicating Science to Broader Audiences |
STEM faculty |
April 16, 2024 |
Writing Like a Teacher: Expanding the Audience for Your Writing |
All faculty |
May 6, 2024 |
Faculty Mentoring Training Program Session IV |
STEM faculty |
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
Past Programs
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021