Mid-Career Accelerator

This mid-career faculty learning community focuses on the building and maintaining of professional momentum after tenure. Participants will use Appreciative Inquiry - a framework for strategic planning that builds on strengths - in the context of other programming to highlight the support and development opportunities that Texas A&M makes available for elevating faculty scholarship and recognition. Faculty participants from other learning community cohorts employing this approach indicate five shared outcomes: 

• A productive shift in mindset, focus and professional purpose 
• A strengthened ability to set and make progress toward relevant career goals 
• Increased energy and confidence to pursue academic career goals 
• New-found appreciation for the value provided by a purposeful community of faculty peers 
• An appreciation for the program structure and facilitators, as well as the resources available to mid-career faculty at Texas A&M University

• Your current CV
• A short essay indicating the mid-career goals and challenges you have, and for which you would like to identify strategies for success
• A letter of endorsement from your Department Head, indicating their support for your participation in the program