Mid-Career Faculty Workshop Series 2026-2027: Welcome & Discussion of Challenges and Possibilities at Mid-Career

The ASHE 2026-2027 Mid-Career Faculty Cohort will offer a supportive, community-centered series designed for mid-career faculty, specifically newly tenured and/or promoted faculty members. The goal is to provide cohort participants with tools and resources to navigate the mid-career stage, including advancement to full and/or administrative pursuits. Through six sessions, participants engage in facilitated learning and networking. The current political and social climate, while alarming, creates opportunities for higher education, particularly the faculty, staff, and administrators who work there to inform effective sustainable change. We believe mid-career faculty are particularly poised to assume leadership roles and responsibilities, and to be focal (and vocal) leaders on their respective campuses with the appropriate development and resources.  The mid-career stage highlights priority mentoring opportunities, and the need for new and innovative faculty development supports that contribute to outcomes at the institutional, departmental, and individual levels. 

Discussion of Challenges and Possibilities at Mid-Career

• Welcome, Introductions, & Overview
• Keynote: Challenges & Possibilities at Academic Mid-Career, Dr. Anna Neumann
• Break
• Breakout Rooms: Connecting to Keynote 
• Whole Group: Debriefing Keynote Breakout Rooms
• Concluding Thoughts & Next Step