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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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  • Assistant Professor Coaching Circle

    Assistant Professor Coaching Circle is a year-long, cohort-based professional development program designed to support tenure-track assistant professors. The Coaching Circle will meet six times across the academic year, in person.

    Sponsored by the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence and the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change (CLOC).

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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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