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Peer Networks & Coaching Circles

Peer networks are faculty learning communities organized by faculty rank/appointment type. Peer networks meet on a regular basis to discuss issues of career development, create opportunities for collaboration and partnership, and give faculty participants strategies for navigating campus.

Register for 2025-2026 Peer Networks:

  • Advancing Professional Track Faculty (APTF)

    ADVANCING Professional Track Faculty (APTF) is a year-long peer network designed to enhance professional success for early-career PTK faculty (1-4 years at UMD). APTF will meet 4 times a semester, in person.

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  • Advancing Together (AT)

    Advancing Together is a year-long peer network that draws from Vicki's Baker's (2020) book, Charting Your Path to Full, as a guide for creating and understanding pathways toward promotion to full professor.

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