Find Clarity and Direction for Your Post-Tenure Career
Tenure is a major milestone, but what comes next is often less clear.
Post-Tenure Pathfinders helps recently tenured and mid-career faculty reconnect with what matters, make intentional career decisions, and create a more sustainable path forward. It is a 12-week guided program designed for faculty navigating the freedom, competing demands, and uncertainty that can come after tenure.
Through structured reflection and practical planning, participants clarify their personal and professional priorities, identify what they want the next stage of their academic career to look like, and make more intentional decisions about where to invest their time and energy.
What You’ll Learn
Post-Tenure Pathfinders will help you:
- Clarify what success looks like for you in the post-tenure stage of your career
- Identify the personal and professional priorities you want to guide your decisions
- Evaluate opportunities and commitments based on your long-term goals
- Recognize where competing demands may be pulling you away from what matters most
- Make more intentional choices about your time, energy, research, teaching, and service
- Develop a clearer vision for a fulfilling and sustainable academic career
- Create a practical path forward instead of relying on the structure that defined the tenure track
Who This Program Is For
Post-Tenure Pathfinders is designed for recently tenured and mid-career faculty who:
- Have achieved tenure but are asking, “What comes next?”
- Feel pulled in too many directions by research, teaching, service, leadership, and other responsibilities
- Are experiencing a lack of structure or clear goals after tenure
- Feel stalled, stretched thin, or uncertain about their next professional chapter
- Want to reconnect their daily work with their larger personal and professional goals
- Are ready to make more intentional decisions about the next stage of their academic career
Explore Post-Tenure Pathfinders
Download the Post-Tenure Pathfinders Overview to learn more about the program, what you’ll gain from participating, and how the 12-week experience can help you build greater clarity, purpose, and direction in your post-tenure career.