The Faculty Leadership Program is conducted as a series of integrated seminars, one-on-one meetings for academic career goal setting, peer-mentoring, feedforward planning, applied practice, and feedback. The 100 continuing professional development hours include on- and off-site engagement with the class of Leadership Faculty Fellows from OU Health Sciences colleges. There are approximately 14 program days during the 10-month program. The time commitment averages out to about 5% work effort for typical academic health professionals or biomedical sciences faculty members. Participation in all scheduled program elements is expected.
Program Requirements and Schedule in Brief: 2025-2026
- September 03, 2025: New Leadership Faculty Fellow Orientation
- September 17: The Teaching Mission and Leadership Challenges
- October 15: Self-Management 1: Time Management | The Research and Scholarship Mission
- October - April: One-on-One Career and Research Project Peer-Mentoring (5-8 individual meetings over 7-months)
- November 19: Self-Management 2: Personality and Temperament | Organization Culture | Developing Teaching Fluency
- December 04: (via Zoom) Assignment: Teaching Philosophy | Educational Scholarship DRAFT and consults day
- January 21, 2026: Framing Your Research and Scholarship | Significance and Specific Aims | Peer-Mentors
- February 18: Public Outreach | Working with the Media | Practicing On Camera
- March 04: Academic Career Management | Preparing for Academic Advancement | Negotiation Basics & Cases
- March 25: (via Zoom) Assignment: Scholarship-in-Progress Research Aims | Abstract and Updates DRAFT and consults day
- April 29: Offsite Leadership Dinner Faculty Fellows and Peer-Mentors
- May 13: Presenting Your Work: Boot Camp
- May 20: Presenting Your Work: Mastering the 10-Minute Presentation
- June 03: Leadership Faculty Fellows Present Scholarship-in-Progress Research (guests invited)
- June 04: Certificate and Graduation Program and Reception with remarks from graduates (guests invited)
- June 23: End of program debrief and evaluation. Digital survey submission (virtual)
2025 Faculty Leadership Program Application page