Faculty Development Events

Effective Mentoring for Faculty Workshop

Session #1: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm, HSLC
Session #2: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm, Virtual
Each session will cover different content so participants are expected to attend both sessions.

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In honor of January being Mentoring Month, Office of Faculty Affairs and Development (OFAD) is hosting these workshops in collaboration with Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). 

This highly interactive 2-part workshop is particularly relevant for faculty who mentor early-stage investigators, including those on career development grants.

Overview of the workshop series:

Mentorship is associated with academic and career success across disciplines and career stages in higher education. Strong mentorship has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, career satisfaction, and sense of support.  Unfortunately, few mentors have received formal training in effective mentoring practices, particularly for mentoring scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups. 

Drs. Christine Pfund and Christine Sorkness will present these 2 highly interactive mentorship workshop sessions. The sessions are based upon the evidence-based curriculum, Entering Mentoring, available through CIMER. In the workshops, mentors will learn ways to advance their mentoring practices in the areas of aligning expectations, addressing equity and inclusion, fostering independence, maintaining effective communication, and promoting mentee research self-efficacy. 

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If you have questions, please contact ofad@med.wisc.edu.

Pathways to Promotion – Tenure

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025, 4:30-6:30pm, Hybrid: HSLC or Zoom
Biological Sciences (Health Science Focused)

Registration – In Person Option
Registration – Zoom Option

Co-hosted by the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty; this workshop offers an in-depth examination of the UW Madison promotion and tenure process from the perspective of central campus and SMPH. 

This course covers:

• Preparing a tenure portfolio
• Learning to get the most from your mentors
• First-hand accounts from recently tenured faculty about preparing for tenure
• How the Biological Sciences Divisional committee operates
• What the division Looks for in successful tenure cases.

During this workshop you can expect the Vice Provost for Faculty & Staff to speak, along with first-hand accounts of recently tenured faculty about preparing for tenure. You will also hear from the Divisional Committee Leadership about how your divisional committee operates and what the committee looks for in successful tenure cases.

Registration – In Person Option
Registration – Zoom Option

View the agenda and workshop materials.

Pathways to Promotion Tenure workshop is for tenure-track faculty only. This workshop may be attended multiple times.

Can’t attend the workshop date listed above?  A Biological Sciences, Pathways to Promotion- Tenure workshop is also available on January 14th, 2025

Contact ofad@med.wisc.edu for questions.

Early Career Grant Writing Seminar

Registration has now closed.

The Department of Medicine Office of Research Services and the SMPH Office of Faculty Affairs and Development are excited to offer the “Early Career Grant Writing” seminar with Dr. John Robertson. This virtual, two-day seminar is designed to support early-career faculty, trainees, and staff in demystifying the grant writing process.

Seminar Details:

• Dates: Thursday and Friday, February 13-14, 2025
• Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm CST each day
• Format: Zoom Webinar

Seminar Highlights:

• Target Audience: Early-career faculty, researchers/scientists (MD/PhD level), research administrators, postdocs, and fellows on the UW-Madison campus.
• Focus: Demystifying the NIH K and, to a lesser extent, F32 grant writing process.

Why Attend?

• Gain insights into effective grant writing strategies.
• Understand how the partnership between applicant, mentor, and institution leads to funding and protected time for research training and career development.
• Identify appropriate proposal types and use review criteria to inform your grant application.
• Establish and get the most from your mentoring team.

Registration Details:

• Cost: Free for SMPH faculty. A $100 fee applies for non-SMPH faculty and all non-faculty participants who did not attend the 2024 seminar, “Write Winning NIH Grant Proposals,” or receive a new seminar textbook last February.
• Registration: Is now closed.

Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your grant writing skills and boost your research career! For more information, please visit the seminar webpage.

Please share this opportunity with others on the UW-Madison campus who would benefit from attending.

Pathways to Promotion 101 for CHS/CT track faculty

Friday, March 21, 2025, 8:30am-12:30pm Hybrid (Virtual & In-Person HSLC)

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This interactive course is tailored to assistant CHS and CT track faculty who would like an introduction to the promotion processes to associate level, have never attended a Pathways to Promotion seminar or are looking to revisit the information. This workshop is ideal for early career, assistant professor faculty who are in their first two or three years at SMPH. Mentors were welcome to attend.

This course includes:

• Introductory information regarding the CHS and CT tracks assistant professor faculty 
• Guidance on mapping your career trajectory
• Identifying a purpose and major goals for your career
• Guidance on how to jump start the process of organizing and collecting your accomplishments

Please join us:
Date: March 21st, 2025
Time: 8:30am-12:30pm
Location: Virtual & In-Person- HSLC

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This workshop is not recorded, but is offered annually. You can find additional promotion related resources available here.

Pathways to Promotion 101 can be attended multiple times. Feel free to share with anybody you mentor or work worth that would be interested in this opportunity. 

Contact ofad@med.wisc.edu for questions.

Please note that this is being offered as a hybrid workshop, and you will need to choose to attend either in person or virtual.