Explore Faculty & Independent Research Careers : Sign up for Summer 2024 Gain insight into the roles, responsibilities, and lives of faculty in diverse institutions! Sign up for Summer 2024 Image: Sameer A. Khan / Fotobuddy Faculty roles vary across public universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. They can also be research-intensive, teaching-intensive, or research-teaching focused. The Future Faculty series familiarizes you with faculty life, revealing essential skills and mindsets for career success. Through data-transparency, a systems view, and knowledge of resources and opportunities, you can intentionally plan your professional development, while learning from Princeton faculty and Princeton alumni who serve as faculty in diverse institutions. Learning Objectives This series is particularly suited for Ph.D. candidates and postdocs who are interested in faculty and/ or independent research careers, and are few years from the faculty job market. Understand the landscape of faculty roles within diverse higher education institutions in the U.S. View metrics and rubrics that drive (or influence) faculty hiring in diverse institutions. Pursue funding discovery and pathways toward research independence. Explore the range of responsibilities undertaken by faculty that require diverse skills such as innovation, leadership, management, communication and mentoring. Understand the shared and distinct flavors of faculty life at diverse institutions (R1, R2, liberal arts college) and community colleges. Gain skills and competencies in teaching, service and access, diversity & inclusion for holistic development and professional success. Two Tracks Available: Future Faculty Workshop 2024: Natural Sciences & Engineering Explore faculty life in diverse institutions—including R1 schools, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—and uncover essential skills and mindsets for career success. Day 1: Faculty Landscape, Funding and Open ScienceDay 2: Faculty Life in an R1 InstitutionDay 3: Grantsmanship, DEI and Faculty Life in Diverse InstitutionsOrganizer: Sonali Majumdar, Assistant Dean for Professional Development Future Faculty Workshop 2023: Humanities & Social Sciences Check back soon for fall 2023 dates! A working schedule for the event, which focuses on faculty life in diverse institutions, ways it is changing, and best practices, can be found below. Full details will be posted soon. Day 1: A Data-Informed Vision of the Faculty Life in the US and Beyond Day 2: Faculty Life: What does it look like now? What will it look like moving forward? Day 3: Open-access scholarship, diversity & inclusion, teaching & alumni panel Facilitator: James M. Van Wyck, Assistant Dean for Professional Development Register Now! Jul 29 2024 GradFUTURES STEM Future Faculty: 1/4- data, funding & open science Jul 30 2024 GradFUTURES STEM Future Faculty: 2/4- Faculty Life in Princeton & DEI Jul 31 2024 GradFUTURES STEM Future Faculty 3/4: Grantsmanship, teaching & faculty life across higher ed Register for Summer 2024 cohort RSVP Now for 2024 Science and Engineering Future Faculty series Related Video "Pathways to the Professoriate" a session recorded at the 2021 GradFUTURES Forum with Molly Wilson, PhD from Academic Analytics.
