A mentoring program that equips faculty to balance scholarship, leadership and personal well-being.  

Professional Pathways Program

You’ve invested greatly to recruit outstanding faculty. Now how can you ensure that they stay and thrive?

How the Professional Pathways Program benefits faculty and campuses:

  • Set and complete weekly and semester goals that lead to promotion and tenure.

  • Identify key mentors and collaborators needed to advance and how to attract them.

  • Learn project management skills to efficiently design collaborative projects and administrative initiatives.

  • Develop interpersonal communication skills to self-advocate and manage conflict.

  • Experience a greater sense of belonging and inclusion in their institution and field, especially for BIPOC, women, and first-generation faculty. 

  • Gain a collegial cross-institutional community of accountability, collaboration, and peer mentoring.

  • Increase faculty well-being, happiness, confidence, and work-life balance.

The Professional Pathways Program supports faculty to acquire the prioritization, communication and leadership skills necessary to succeed in a dynamic and demanding academic environment. 

Professional Pathways Program Results

What Your Peers are Saying

  • “I love the ways that you concretely define work-life harmony. It is intentional and must be supported institutionally.”

    - Maria Luisa Ruiz, Ph.D., Senior Diversity Officer and Professor, St. Mary’s College of California

  • “When I came up through the ranks, we had to figure out how to manage the demands of research, teaching, and promotion while also managing home and personal life. As provost, I have the power to help faculty be successful without them having to stumble through it or learn through trial and error. That’s why the Professional Pathways Program appeals to us.”

    - Jeffrey Robinson, Ph.D., Provost, Rutgers Business School

  • “I find your programs to be uplifiting. I leave with the feeling of possibility. It’s not just that I learn how to do something and get to do it in a group of inspiring people. You help us be reflexive about our big dreams, and then show us how to take tiny steps to make incremental shifts.”

    - Jacquelyne Luce, Ph.D., Department Co-Chair, Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College

  • “Fatimah has deep expertise and has been a wonderful partner to our office for over 5 years. Having had the pleasure of observing her in both in-person and virtual sessions, I would recommend engaging her for either – both are effective.”

    - Beth Tracy, Senior Director of Faculty Development, Rutgers University

Program Overview

Enrollment includes ten months of structured support and community building.

    • Fundamentals Workshop (3 hrs): “How to Set Achievable Goals, Meet Your Deadlines, and Have a Life in Academia”

    • 2 Peer Group Sessions (90 min): Guided small group sessions for cross-institutional networking, accountability & support, based on our proprietary goal-setting framework

    • Schedule Detox: Monthly productivity and leadership newsletter designed to help anticipate and ease pain points in the academic calendar.

    • Advanced Techniques Workshop (3 hrs): “Build Your Scholar Leadership to Thrive in and Beyond the Academia”

    • 2 Peer Group Sessions (90 min): Guided small group sessions for cross-institutional networking, accountability & support, based on our proprietary goal-setting framework

    • Schedule Detox: Monthly productivity and leadership newsletter designed to help anticipate and ease pain points in the academic calendar.

Enroll Now

Act Fast – Enrollment closes June 10th.

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Serving a Wide Range of Institutions

  • St. Mary’s College of California - Founding Member 

  • Rutgers University

  • University of Texas at Austin

  • Princeton University

  • Norfolk State University

  • Harrisburg University of Science & Technology 

  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  • Yale University

  • Brandeis University

  • Institute for Teaching and Mentoring

  • American Anthropological Association

  • New York University

About Us

Beyond the Tenure Track equips academics for sustainable careers, scholar leadership, and thriving lives. Founded by Fatimah Williams, Ph.D., author of The Professional Pathways Planner and executive coach, we offer leadership and professional development training, books, and coaching to help scholars flourish.

Enroll your campus or school today!

Enrollment closes June 10th.

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Have questions? We have answers! 

Contact our Enrollment Team at (732) 743-5052 or support@beyondthetenuretrack.com