Faculty Success
Supporting faculty in their teaching, research, clinical activities, engagement, outreach and extension efforts and professional development.
Celebrating Faculty Success
The Office of the Provost strives to support faculty excellence in all areas and at each stage of our faculty members’ development. We partner and collaborate with each of our colleges and schools to work with our faculty throughout their careers and enhance their success in all aspects of their work—teaching, research, clinical activities, engagement, outreach and extension efforts and professional development. We support and prepare faculty for success in the promotion and tenure process, as well as internal and external leadership roles in their fields and disciplines. Our faculty engage in a variety of programs and initiatives that help them innovate, lead and make lasting impacts in their fields and our state and communities. Every year we celebrate faculty success with many events, such as a new faculty reception, a welcome back social where we honor decades of service among our faculty, a promotion and tenure celebration, and gatherings where we honor faculty awardees, including the William T. Kemper teaching awards. (shown on left).
Faculty Awards and Successes
5
Highly Prestigious Awards
26
Prestigious Awards
24
Faculty members won 17 campus awards
Promotion & Tenure
in the 2024-2025 promotion cycle, 148 faculty members were promoted.
Tenure Track & Tenured
- 57 successful promotions
- 30 promoted to associate professor with tenure
- 25 promoted to full professor
- 2 awarded tenure only
Non-tenure Track
- 91 successful promotions
Programs for Early Career Faculty
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Attend New Faculty Orientation
New Faculty Orientation events include both webinars and in-person sessions taking place at the Missouri State Historical Society located at 605 Elm Street. Register for this year’s sessions taking place August 19-20.
Why New Faculty Chose Mizzou -
Apply for the LEAP Cohort
Learning and Expanding Abilities for Professoriate Cohort Fellows Program (LEAP) is a two-year cohort program designed to support assistant professors (TT and NTT) as they begin their academic careers as faculty members.
LEAP Creates Community -
Join Connection
Connection is a faculty support program designed for both tenure-track (TT) and non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty, primarily assistant and early associate-level professors. The program is geared towards those interested in fostering a supportive environment for all faculty.
NCFDD offers many support programs for faculty, such as the Faculty Success Program, a structured, 10-week virtual experience designed to help faculty members increase productivity, establish sustainable writing habits, and create work-life balance—all with the support of expert coaching and a dedicated community of peers.
More about Connection
By the Numbers
68
New Faculty participated in orientation in August 2024
24
Faculty participated in the first LEAP cohort (2024-26)
16
Faculty were financially supported for NCFDD since spring 2024
Mid-Career to Full Professor Faculty Programs
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Apply for the Mid-Career Cohort
This is a partnership program between the Office of the Provost and the Office of Research, Innovation, and Impact, designed to provide development opportunities to associate professors (tenured and NTT faculty) prior to promotion to full professor. Meet the faculty cohort members.
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Attend Full Professor Sessions
Around 40 full professors attended various sessions offered on leadership, mentoring, well-being and a Q & A with the Provost.
Full Professor Programming
Testimonials from Former Faculty Participants
NCFDD Faculty Success Program participant
"I found the NCFFD Faculty Success Program to be incredible. Not only did I learn a bunch of skills, I met a group of new faculty from various universities across the country. Even though I am finished with my time in the program, I still meet with my small group weekly for us to check in and hold each other accountable for our goals/work. "
Arts & Humanities Fellow alumni, 2023-25
"While I found the course release and grant funding essential in pushing the book project forward, I also appreciated deeply the mentor component of the program. Because of it, I was able to cultivate what will be a long-lasting relationship with an extraordinary scholar, whom I would have never had the opportunity to meet." - Ilyana Karthas, associate professor in History
Provost Leadership Program alumni, 2020-21
“If you have any goals of being in leadership in academia, I think that this is one of the better experiences you can have in terms of preparation for that.” Jeff Bryan, Professor of Oncology, Veterinary Medicine & Surgery
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Faculty members in the 2024-26 Mid-Career Cohort
171
Full professors attended sessions
8
Faculty members in the 2024-26 Arts & Humanities Fellows
Great Books Program and Arts & Humanities Research and Creative Works Fellows Program
Great Books Program
The focus of the Great Books Program is to support mid-career faculty who are writing books. Faculty who have an advance contract (or strong letter of interest from a publisher or editor) to publish a book can apply for a course release to support the completion of the book.
- In 2024-2025, 19 faculty with received course releases to focus on publishing a book.
Arts & Humanities Research and Creative Works Fellows Program
The Office of the Provost and Division of Research, Innovation & Impact offer this two-year research and creative works support program, which aims to create structures, supports, and mentoring for early and mid-career faculty members who engage in the arts and humanities.
Creating supports for faculty
Councils to Support Faculty Success
Faculty Success Council —established to identify opportunities to support faculty success on campus. The council, which includes representatives from the leadership teams at each college and school, meets regularly during the academic year, engages in discussions with their unit’s leadership team and faculty members, and helps facilitate programming, initiatives, and/or supports in their unit related to faculty success.
Professional Development Council and Programs — comprised of representatives from units across the university to support faculty success and professional development. The PD Council provides a space for various units to share current and upcoming PD opportunities with each other, communicate to faculty about PD opportunities, and seek input on the changing topics and needs of faculty members to create PD opportunities that are relevant. On April 4, 2025, the PD Council hosted a showcase event focused on AI and Professional Development.
