ASHE Early Career Faculty Cohort 2025-2026
* Registration open until 8/22/25 at 12:00 PM (MDT)
We've heard your feedback! Over the past 19 years, the Early Career Faculty Workshop has been a staple event for new faculty members. And since 2020, the Mid-Career Faculty Workshop has engaged newly tenured and/or promoted faculty members. Based on attendee feedback indicating a desire for more community building and year-round engagement, we are excited to announce the extension of these programs from single-day workshops to year-round cohort models.
The ASHE 2025-2026 Early Career Faculty Cohort will offer a supportive, community-centered series designed for first-year faculty members, including tenure-track, clinical, and adjunct faculty as well as administrators who have recently joined the faculty at any rank. Through six sessions from August 2025 to May 2026, participants engage in facilitated learning and networking focused on integrating identity in academia, mentoring, teaching, advising, and navigating promotion. In addition to virtual sessions, the cohort will gather during the ASHE General Conference in Denver for a session and a dinner with mentors. Each session combines structured facilitation with intentional community-building, fostering connections, reflection, and strategies for thriving across various faculty roles.
Learning/Event Outcomes
After the workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Develop strategies to align their research, teaching, and service activities with individual values and institutional expectations.
- Expand their professional network by engaging with senior and early career scholars.
- Create the beginnings of a personalized career development plan that reflects their unique aspirations and circumstances.
Funding Support
Potential attendees are encouraged to seek support from their program/department/college. We encourage institutional leaders to support new faculty members with this specialized professional development opportunity. If more information is needed, please reach out to ASHE Executive Director Jason Guilbeau at jason@ashe.ws.
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Current ASHE Member Registration
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$200.00 |
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Non-Member Registration
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$250.00 |
Participants are expected to attend all sessions of the cohort. Once you register, we will follow up with calendar invites.
| Session 1: Welcome, Introductions, ASHE Overview, Community Building |
Friday, August 29, 2025 |
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Session 2: Integrating your whole self in teaching, research, & service |
Friday, October 3, 2025 |
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Session 3: Mentoring Minute Roundtables & Filling in and updating Success |
Friday, November 14, 2025 |
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Mentoring Lunch |
Friday, November 14 |
Cohort members will enjoy a networking lunch with their presenters, chairs, and members of the Mid-Career Faculty Cohort. |
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Session 4: Balancing Self and Centering Students in Teaching and Advising |
Friday, January 23, 2026 |
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Session 5: Navigating Productivity, Promotion, and Politics |
Friday, March 6, 2026 |
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Session 6: Crafting Your Success Plan |
Friday, May 1, 2026 |
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For questions about this event, please reach out to the ASHE Staff.
Thank you to our event leaders.
Tamara Bertrand Jones, PhD
she/her
Event Chair
Professor of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership & Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jesse R. Ford, PhD
he/him
Incoming Event Chair
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
For More Information:
Event Information
- Virtual events are live captioned through Zoom. An opportunity to share how the event can be more accessible for you is provided in the registration form. For questions about accessibility, please reach out to the ASHE Staff.
- All ASHE Professional Development events encourage participants to engage throughout the event in various ways. To provide an environment that is conducive to learning and engagement and to provide a safe space (to the extent possible), Professional Development events are not recorded.
- Attendees will review and agree to the ASHE Events Code of Conduct (https://www.ashe.ws/codeofconduct) and Payment Policies (https://www.ashe.ws/paymentpolicies) during registration.