Faculty Career Development

Our Mission

  • To support faculty skill acquisition in teaching, research, and leadership as well as navigating the complex organizational structures in which they practice.
  • To maintain high levels of faculty satisfaction with their professional experience at the Medical School.

Our Objectives

  • To improve faculty members' ability to achieve success in their careers while increasing their satisfaction with their professional experience at the University of Michigan.
  • To advance the recruitment and retention of high-quality faculty members by the Medical School.

Learn More

New Faculty Orientation: How to get started at U-M →

Resources: Research, grantwriting, mentorship and more →

Upcoming Workshops

Next Session:
Tue, July 30, 2024
Join us for the inaugural session of the APEX Mid-Career Series . In this workshop, we'll focus on goal-setting and the path forward from Associate to Professor (or Assistant to Associate Professor for those who are on the clinical track and in mid-career). We'll discuss creating an Individual ... more
Next Session:
Mon, September 09, 2024
The Advancing Your People Leadership Skills Series , brought to us by CTA of Michigan, Inc. is designed to help faculty practice the critical skills they need to move beyond survival, to thrive in their leadership roles, and ultimately retain amazing people. This brand new pilot series was designed ... more
Next Session:
Tue, September 10, 2024
A key component to getting your professional work known, and being promoted in academia, is exhibiting a national reputation and unique contributions to your field. In this workshop, faculty who have successfully navigated this will demystify how you can achieve a national/international reputation ... more
Next Session:
Wed, September 11, 2024 to Wed, September 18, 2024
This is a two-part workshop. Participants must attend both sessions. September 11, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. September 18, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. These ... more
Next Session:
Thu, September 12, 2024
This session introduces author identifiers and online scholarly profiles. We’ll dig into a few of the specific author identifiers that are available including ORCID and Scopus Author IDs, and spend some time looking at the different platforms that scholars use including Google Scholar and Michigan ... more