ASHE Mid-Career Faculty Cohort 2025-2026
* Registration open until 9/3/25 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 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 workshop attendees with tools and resources to navigate the mid-career stage, including advancement to full and/or administrative pursuits. Through six sessions from September 2025 to May 2026, 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.
Learning/Event Outcomes
Throughout the program, attendees will:
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Discuss and learn useful ideas for exploring career transitions
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Engage in current and future career advancement exercises and outline next steps to achieve career goals
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Walk away with action steps on how to enhance their mentoring network
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Foster a mid-career community of scholars for support moving forward
Funding Support
Potential attendees are encouraged to seek support from their program/department/college. We encourage institutional leaders to support newly promoted and/or tenured 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.
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Session 1: Welcome & Discussion of Challenges and Possibilities at Mid-Career |
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 |
Session Facilitator: Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Associate Dean of the School of Education and Human Development and Professor of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Social Work, Saint Joseph's University
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Session 2: Mid-Career Self-Assessment & Strategic Reflection |
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
Session Facilitator: Chris Heasley, Associate Professor and Chair of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Social Work, Saint Joseph’s University
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Session 3: Enacting Priorities & Building Mentoring Networks |
Friday, November 14, 2025 |
Session Facilitator: Jeff Sun, Associate Dean for Innovation and Strategic Partnerships Professor, Director, University of Louisville
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Networking Lunch |
Friday, November 14 |
Cohort members join their chairs, presenters and the Early Career Faculty Cohort members for lunch. |
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Session 4: Building Your Mid-Career Toolkit |
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 |
Session Facilitator: Vicki Baker, Maynard Aris Endowed Professor in Economics and Management, associate dean of strategic partnerships and innovation, and chair of the economics and management department, Albion College
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Session 5: Mentoring Matters at Mid-Career |
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 |
Session Facilitator: Meghan Pifer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation Department, University of Kentucky
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Session 6: Coaching, Reflection, and Planning Ahead |
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 |
Session Facilitator: Vicki Baker, Maynard Aris Endowed Professor in Economics and Management, associate dean of strategic partnerships and innovation, and chair of the economics and management department, Albion College
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For questions about this event, please reach out to the ASHE Staff.
Thank you to our event leaders
Aimee LaPointe Terosky, PhD
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Event Chair
Associate Dean of the School of Education and Human Development and Professor of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Social Work
Saint Joseph's University
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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.