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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 (1-3 years at UMD). APTF will meet 4 times a semester, in-person.

    Sponsored by the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence and the Office of Faculty Affairs. 

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  • Community Engaged Researchers Network (CERN)

    Community Engaged Researchers Network (CERN) is a year-long peer network designed to provide faculty with the opportunity to explore key principles and best practices for community-engaged research and scholarship.

    Sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement and the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence.

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