Welcome! We hope to see you soon!

We offer a variety of programming to allow faculty, staff, postdocs, and students across campus to network and support each other.

 

After we return from Fall break, we will begin taking applications to form faculty, staff, and postdoc Mentoring Circles for the Spring 2027 semester. These small clusters will have one mentor with 4-5 mentees and meet once per month. Please watch this website and the UofM This Week email for additional details.

FALL 2026 EVENTS

**Please RSVP for each event so that we plan accordingly and send you an Outlook calendar invite.**

 

Fall Networking Social - Details TBA!

Series on Mentorship

• Join us for a two-event series on self-leadership, being a mentor, and receiving mentorship. All faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students are welcome to attend.
• Led by Dr. Kathy Tuberville, Director of Fogelman Leaders in Action (FLA) and Associate Professor of Teaching in the UofM Department of Management 
• Event 1: Developing Self-Leadership, September 24, 11:30 - 1, Senate Chambers (UC 2nd floor) & virtual 
• Event 2: Mentorship, November 3, 11:30 - 1, Senate Chambers (UC 2nd floor) & virtual
• Please RSVP here by September 18.

Writing-Focused Initiatives

• All faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students who are looking for writing (or task) accountability are invited to join us at our October writing habits event and in our weekly virtual writing accountability group.

• Developing Writing Habits Event

  • Led by Dr. Kurt Kraiger, Executive Director of Memphis Institute for Leadership Education (MILE) and the Chair of the Department of Management in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics
  • Thursday October 8, 11:30 - 1, UC Memphis Room (UC 340) and virtual
  • Please RSVP by Tuesday October 6 at noon.
• Weekly Virtual Writing Accountability Groups (on Teams) - No RSVP Necessary - Join Us When You Can!
  • All faculty, staff, and students who are looking for writing (or task) accountability are invited to join us in our weekly virtual writing accountability group. Led by Dr. Leigh Harrell-Williams (leigh.williams@memphis.edu) and Dr. Crystal White (crystal.white@memphis.edu). 
  • You can be working on ANY PROJECT during this time. We aren't exclusive to writing academic papers. We want to support you reaching your goals this semester, whatever those might be.
    Please note that this group is not intended for students looking for feedback on their writing for a class assignment or research project. 
  • Fall 2026 Weekly Time: Thursdays 8-10am (from September 3 to December 3). Join us via Teams: (Meeting ID: 293 436 701 685 172; Passcode: pm2p96Zu)
• Writing Accountability Community in MS Teams
  • Connect with colleagues to form writing partnerships, track and share your writing time, exchange resources and strategies, and celebrate progress. Whether you're just getting started or looking to build momentum, this space is designed to support your writing goals through accountability and peer encouragement. Join here!
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*Faculty Only Initiatives*

2026-2027 Faculty Learning Community for Promotion to Associate (led by Dr. Leigh Harrell-Williams, CEPR)

• The goal of this Faculty Learning Community is to support junior faculty in establishing a strong pathway to promotion to the rank of associate professor. This FLC will be limited to 10 faculty currently at the rank of assistant professor who have completed mid-tenure/3rd year review and/or will be going up for promotion and/or tenure in approximately 2 years.
• Fall 2026 meetings will occur once monthly in September and October for 1.5 hours on Fridays, working around participant schedules. Initial topics include: Understanding Promotion Guidelines and Expectations, Goal Setting to Address Third Year Review or Department Chair Feedback, and Identifying Potential External Reviewers (for tenure only).
• Spring 2027 meetings will occur once monthly in January and April on Fridays as check-ins to follow-up on attendance at the Promotion/Tenure Narrative Writing and Feedback Sessions from November - March.
• Applications are due Wednesday September 2 at noon. Notification will occur by Friday September 4.

Promotion/Tenure Narrative Writing and Feedback Sessions (Ongoing throughout Fall 2026 & Spring 2027)

• These events are focused on faculty at the assistant and associate level who will be going up for third-year review in 2026-2027 or promotion and/or tenure in 2027-2028.
• Open to tenure-track/tenured, teaching, clinical, professors of practice, and research faculty.
• Two-session events will be held for each type of narrative. The first session for each narrative will include a presentation about what to include in your statement. Participants who don’t have a statement draft already will work on an outline or bullet point list. Those who do have a statement draft already will work with peer feedback partners. During the second session, everyone will work with a peer feedback partner.
• Research Statement: Friday November 6 9-10:30am (virtual only) & Thursday December 3rd (study day) 9-10:30am (UC Senate Chamber & virtual)  Please RSVP here by Tuesday November 3 at noon.
• Teaching Statement: Friday January 22 & Friday February 12 9-10:30 am  (UC Senate Chamber & virtual) Please RSVP here by Wednesday January 20 at noon.
• Service/Outreach/Advising/Mentoring/Administration Statement: Friday March 5 & Friday March 26 9-10:30am (UC Senate Chamber & virtual) Please RSVP by Wednesday March 3.

 

 

 If you have other ideas for programming this semester that you would like us to co-sponsor, please reach out to us.