Mid-Career Faculty Initiative - Center for Faculty Advancement

Supporting associate professors advancing to full professor

Mid-career faculty play an important part in building programs, departments, and institutes; leading initiatives; and nurturing the next generation. Despite their accomplishments, they often face unique challenges that come with the multiple priorities and competing demands common to this career phase—challenges that can be a barrier to further advancement.

The Mid-Career Faculty Initiative (MCFI), a program of NYU’s Center for Faculty Advancement, provides support to associate professors with at least four years’ tenure who are ready to take the next step in their careers and advance to full professor. The MCFI delivers monthly seminars and workshops in a blend of in-person and online sessions, as well as biweekly writing salons in New York City. View the schedule

Introduction to the MCFI (~4 min)

Goals of the Initiative

The MCFI helps faculty to leverage their experience in the three pillars of success:

Scholarship and research
Teaching
Service

Specifically, the MCFI aims to:

Expand skills related to the three pillars that faculty are assessed on
Promote and prioritize writing, scholarship, and publication opportunities
Present a strong dossier for review and hear from reviewers who engage in the process
Offer peer-mentoring and peer-to-peer support
Provide coaching and leadership training in coordination with our external partner Academic Impressions (upon faculty request)

People helping each other with assignments

Applications for Fall 2024

Eligible faculty: Associate professors with tenure, at rank for four years

Applications open:
September 16, 2024

Application deadline:
October 11, 2024 @ 11:59pm ET

MCFI orientation: Date TBD (end of October)

Faculty must attend four of six modules (not including Orientation) to receive a completion certificate.

Faculty who complete the MCFI program will be eligible to serve as Provost Ambassadors (peer mentors) for future cohorts.

View Curriculum

Congratulations to the graduating
MCFI Cohort of 2023–24!

Meet the Provost’s MCFI Ambassadors for 2024–25, selected from the graduating cohort of 2023–24.

APPROACH

Support from multiple levels of university personnel

We foster a culture of mentoring and support that is shared by senior university administrators, the heads of all schools and departments, and NYU faculty.