Future Faculty Seminar

The Future Faculty Seminar is open to all Stanford graduate students and postdocs considering an academic career. This weekly seminar addresses the broad spectrum of duties and opportunities presented through faculty positions, beyond the research-related aspects normally covered in graduate/post doc training. Participants will develop an awareness of the resources and skills that lead to faculty job success and obtain answers to pressing field-specific and related faculty job questions through intellectual discussions with representatives of various academic institutions and fellow course participants. Topics will include: finding and obtaining faculty jobs, negotiating and navigating the first year, and working toward tenure.

The schedule of Fall Quarter 2009-10 sessions is available.

The course is conducted as a seminar that meets once a week for nine weeks. Sessions 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 will cover aspects of faculty careers relevant to all disciplines (core sessions). Sessions 2, 4, 6, and 8 will be divided to cover discipline-specific topics. The class meetings will include both formal presentations by speakers and discussion panels.

The two discipline-specific sections are: Humanities/Social Sciences/Education (HSSE), Sciences/Engineering (SciEng). Participants should attend the section which best matches their field.

Funding for the development of this course has been provided by the VPGE and is supported by the School of Medicine Career Center, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Career Development Center.