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.
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
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021