Mid-Career Faculty Workshop Series 2025-2026: Enacting Priorities & Building Mentoring Network

The ASHE 2025-2026 Mid-Career Faculty Workshop Series 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 participants 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. 

Enacting Priorities at Mid-Career & Building Your Network

Facilitator: Jeffrey Sun, Gradie R. & Mary D. Rowntree Endowed Chair in Educational Administration & Policy, University of Louisville  

• Breakfast, Welcome, Overview, Introductions & Community Building
• Faculty Panel:
  • Willis Jones, PhD: Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Affairs and Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University 
  • Jacob Gross, PhD: Associate Professor and Program Director, Higher Education & Workforce Development, University of Louisville
  • Susan VanDeventer Iverson, EdD: Professor & Director, Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, Chair - Department of Educational Leadership, Manhattanville University
  • James Archibald, PhD, LPCC: Professor and Department Chair, Bellarmine University
• Table Reflections with Panelists
• Break
• Attend ASHE Presidential Address
• 11:30 - 1:00 pm: Group Lunch at Yard House in Sheraton Denver Downtown (meal included with session registration)