Programs
Academic Chats
Could a faculty career be in your future? Attend Academic Chats to explore skills and experience to help you prepare from Stanford faculty and staff.
Communicating Effectively with Your Advisor
Want to learn skills to communicate better and resolve issues with your faculty advisor? Communicating Effectively with Your Advisor workshop helps you develop a healthy and productive relationship with your faculty advisor.
Diversity Works
Come together with academic leaders to discuss issues related to diversity and excellence in higher education at Diversity Works. Relevant to students at any stage in any degree program, as well as postdocs, faculty and staff.
Fellows Forum
Expand your academic skills and meet new people over a healthy meal at Fellows Forum. Designed for early-mid stage doctoral students, especially those in STEM fields.
Leadership Dinners
Dine with inspiring leaders from various industries and organizations. At Leadership Dinners, you will interact with proven leaders and a small group of graduate students over dinner at the Faculty Club.
Leadership from the Inside Out: Know Yourself Before Leading Others
Learn to assess your core leadership strengths and areas for development to become an effective manager/leader.
Preparing for Faculty Careers Course (EDUC 343C)
How will you prepare yourself to obtain a great faculty job - and to thrive as a professor once you begin your career? The Preparing for Faculty Careers course (EDUC 343C, Spring Q) is designed for advanced doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars from any discipline who are considering a faculty career.
Preparing Future Professors
What does it take to be a faculty member at a teaching-focused university or community college? Preparing Future Professors gives you a chance to experience faculty life first-hand by shadowing a faculty member at Foothill College, San Jose State University, or University of San Francisco.
Quick Bytes
Gain valuable professional development skills that you can apply right away! Quick Bytes sessions cover a variety of topics and include lunch.
Teaching Strategies for Diverse Classrooms
Learn strategies to improve your teaching by actively engaging students with diverse backgrounds.
WISE and WISSH Groups
Since June 2001, Stanford has sponsored mentoring groups for women PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in science and engineering (WISE). For the past several years, a similar program has also been available for women PhD students and postdocs in the social sciences and the humanities (WISSH).
