2025 Summer Preparing for Faculty Careers Certificate Series

The Preparing for a Facutly Career Certificate will not be offered in 2025. Instead, we will be offering a series of workshops focused on preparing graduate students and postdocs for the academic job market.  All are welcome, but these workshops are most helpful for those planning on going on the academic job market in the next 1-2 years.  We hope to bring back the Preparing for a Faculty Career certificate in 2026.

Virtual Information Sessions (click to register):

  • 8/11/25, 12-1 PM – Launching Your Academic Job Search
    • How might your application for a community college differ from your application for an R1 university? What are search committees and how do they function? Join UCI Director of Postdoc and Professional Development, Dr. Kayleigh Anderson-Natale to learn answers to these questions and more about academic job searches.
  • 8/13/25, 12-1 PM – CVs & Cover Letters for Academic Careers
    • How do you build an effective CV for academic jobs and what are the best strategies for developing a strong cover letter? Join UCI Division of Career Pathways Associate Director of Career Education Jill Wells to learn how to craft effective documents for academic job materials.
  • 8/15/25, 12-1 PM – Interviewing for Academic Careers
    • Hoping to ace your academic interviews this Fall? Join Activate to Captivate CEO Bri McWhorter to learn strategies to be present in your interviews and ways to be empowered to present your best self to the committee.
  • 8/18/25, 12-1 PM – Diversity Statements Information Session
    • Crafting an effective diversity statement that is tailored to the role your applying to can be tricky. Join Dr. Alex Bower of the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation to learn more about diversity statements. Make sure to add your questions to the registration form and Alex will try to answer them all!
  • 8/20/25, 12-1 PM – Teaching Statements Information Session
    • How do you craft a teaching statement that will appeal to a search committee? Join UCI Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication Hosna Sheikholeslami to learn how to craft an effective teaching statement.
  • 8/22/25, 12-1 PM – Research Statements Information Session (includes a panel of faculty from across campus)
    • Research statements vary from field to field, so come get your questions answered by a multi-disciplinary panel of faculty gathered to discuss effective strategies for research statements in their fields. This session will begin with a short panel discussing research statements generally, then panelists will breakout into smaller groups to discuss how research statements work in their respective fields.

In-Person Peer Editing Clinics (Held at the GPSRC):

  • 8/27/25, 12-1 PM – Teaching Statements Peer Editing Clinic
    • Now that you’ve learned about how to craft a teaching statement, bring a draft to the GSPRC and get some feedback from other students and postdoctoral scholars. Participants will be equipped with a teaching statement rubric and then will exchange documents and give each other feedback.
  • 8/29/25, 12-1 PM – Research Statements Peer Editing Clinic
    • For our last session in this series, bring of your research statement and get some peer feedback. Again, participants will all be given rubrics and then will exchange documents and give each other feedback.

Contact

Questions? Email Kayleigh Anderson-Natale, Ph.D. Director of Postdoc and Professional Development, at kayleiga@uci.edu.