News

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) is hosting an all-day, all-faculty and librarians writing retreat on May 29th from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in the Life Sciences Laboratory, Rooms S320, S330, S340, and S350. The theme of this writing retreat is “Sustaining Writing Practices With and Through Community.”

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) is happy to announce 14 awards to faculty and librarians leading mutual mentoring projects in 2025-26.

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the UMass Amherst Delphi Leadership Award, Steven D. Brewer, Christiane Healey, Kate Hudson, and Marc Liberatore, who are recognized for their innovative contributions and exceptional leadership as non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty members at UMass Amherst.  

The Office of Faculty Development is pleased to announce that Provost Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has selected five UMass Amherst faculty to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year: Associate Professors Angélica María Bernal, John Francisco, Jennifer McDermott, Marianna Ritchey, and Kristine Yu. 

The Office of Faculty Development is happy to announce its second cohort of OFD Scholars. This year's theme is "Shifting Directions: New Projects, New Audiences, New Writing Practices." Six scholars from across campus will meet throughout the spring semester in guided writing workshops with the goal of making progress toward a new project, publication, approach to writing, or audience.

The Office of Faculty Development announced the release of its first thematic report detailing findings from the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. The first report focuses on “The Department.” 

Join facilitators from OFD and ADVANCE on April 11 from 9:30–2:00 p.m. to learn best practices in academic mentoring, building on training developed by the National Research Mentoring Network, through the examination of case studies, group work, and reflection exercises.

The Office of Faculty Development is excited to announce the UMass Amherst Delphi Leadership Award, a new honor to recognize the achievements of non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty at UMass Amherst. In 2024, the University of Massachusetts Amherst was selected as a winner of the 2024 Delphi Award by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities. The funds from the prize will be used to establish this new award on campus to recognize the excellence of our NTT

Welcome back to campus! I hope that the last 6 weeks were a time of meaningful connection and restoration for you.