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Professional Development

As a faculty member at Texas A&M University, you are part of a broad community of scholars who seek to excel professionally in the context of their discipline, their classroom and their department. The following programs are curated exclusively to support Texas A&M faculty at many stages of their career and professional development.

APT to Lead

APT to Lead is cohort-based professional development program for Academic Professional Track (APT) faculty members in or pursuing academic leadership positions.

Faculty Development Leave

Faculty Development Leave provides full-time tenured faculty unique opportunities to expand their scholarship and professional development.

Faculty Development Series

Faculty Affairs hosts monthly sessions focused on informational and development opportunities for faculty. On the first Monday of each month, Faculty Development Series sessions will be open to faculty on the College Station campus and across the Texas A&M University System. Attendees are invited to participate in-person and via Zoom. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

Faculty Retirement

Faculty considering retirement have multiple resources available to them as they preparing for their career transition, and Faculty Affairs encourages their continued engagement with Texas A&M post-retirement.

Generate Professional Success (for APT Faculty)

Generating Professional Success (GPS) workshop is designed to help faculty review expectations and learn about successful strategies for promotion on the academic professional track.

Got Tenure? Now What?

The "Got Tenure! Now What?" workshop helps recently tenured faculty begin their journey to full professor by identifying successful strategies.

Leading a Mentoring Culture

Mentorship programs are available to Texas A&M faculty to support their professional development and their contribution to creating and sustaining our nurturing working and learning environments.

Mid-Career Accelerator

The Mid-Career Accelerator is a learning community for mid-career faculty to focus on building and maintaining professional success strategies at least three years post-tenure.

National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

Texas A&M faculty have a wide range of internal resources available to support success, as well as access to a number of external professional development and networking opportunities.

New Academic Leadership Orientation

New Academic Leader Orientation provides new leaders of Texas A&M faculty the tools and resources to create and develop the optimal working and learning environments.

New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation provides new Texas A&M faculty members the tools and resources to initiate successful careers in Aggieland.

Roadmap for a Successful Tenure-Track Academic Career

This workshop helps early career tenure-track faculty review expectations and successful strategies for receiving tenure. This program occurs annually along with the "GPS" and "Got Tenure! Now What?" workshops.