Upcoming Opportunities & Deadlines

Contact [email protected] for additional details regarding these events.

View the full schedule of upcoming workshops and webinars offered by Center for Educational Innovation (CEI). 

• Jan. 21: New Faculty Program: Introduction to Zotero (collect, organize and cite PDFs) workshop
• Jan. 26: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Jan. 28: Headshot session
• Jan. 28: New Faculty Program: Aligning Expectations with Advisees: Advising Statements for Graduate Faculty
• Jan. 29: Biomedical Sciences Research Lecture Series: Tiny Trypanosomes and devastating diseases: An exploration of the parasites that cause Chagas disease and African Sleeping Sickness
• Jan. 30: New Faculty Program: Every Career Chapter Needs a Plan
• Feb. 2: P&T Workshop for Probationary Faculty (via Zoom)
• Feb. 2: Deadline for letters of intent to apply to CTSI K Accelerator Program
• Feb. 3: New Faculty Program: Fostering Critical AI Literacy Across Courses and Disciplines
• Feb. 4: New Faculty Program: Maintaining Effective Communication with Your Mentees/Advisees
• Feb. 5: Community Engaged Researchers (CEnR) Circle
• Feb. 9: Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health: Sex Science Happy Hour
• Feb. 11: New Faculty Program: Supporting Neurodivergent Students
• Feb. 11: New Faculty Program: Building Strong Community Partnerships: From First Contact to Sustained Collaboration
• Feb. 12: New Faculty Program: How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities
• Feb. 12: New Faculty Program: Aligning Expectations with Advisees: Advising Statements for Graduate Faculty
• Feb. 15: Call for Abstracts Deadline for International Conference on Implementing Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Medical Education
• Feb. 19: New Faculty Program: Maintaining Effective Communication with Your Mentees/Advisees
• Feb. 22: Center for Interprofessional Health: WILD Series™ Preceptor Development: The Values & Ethics series
• Feb. 23: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Feb. 26: New Faculty Program: Reviews, Rejections and Revisions: The Peer Review Experience
• Feb. 26: New Faculty Program: Using Writing to Facilitate Group Discussions
• Mar. 2: New Faculty Program: RCR Foundations Workshop: Building Integrity in Research
• Mar. 3: New Faculty Program: How Do I Cite Brainstorming? Attribution for the Many Uses of GenAI
• Mar. 3: Public Engagement Conference
• Mar. 4: New Faculty Program: Annual Research Ethics Day Conference 2026
• Mar. 5: New Faculty Program: Designing Meaningful CEL Assignments: Reflection, Resources, and Rubrics
• Mar. 5: Community Engaged Researchers (CEnR) Circle
• Mar. 11: New Faculty Program: Critical Thinking--Better Together
• Mar. 11: Academic/Tenure Tracks Promotion Training (faculty)
• Mar. 11: Clinician Track Promotion Training (faculty)
• Mar. 12: New Faculty Program: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practices
• Mar. 17: New Faculty Program: Resisting AI: A Lunchtime Panel and Discussion
• Mar. 17: Clinician Track Promotion Training (staff)
• Mar. 17: Clinician Track Promotion Training (faculty)
• Mar. 18: Academic/Tenure Tracks Promotion Training (staff)
• Mar. 19: Academic/Tenure Tracks Promotion Training (faculty)
• Mar. 20: New Faculty Program: View from 20,000 Feet: An Overview of Advising on the Twin Cities Campus
• Mar. 23: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Mar. 23: Proposal Preparation Program (P3) Summer Cycle 2026 application deadline
• Mar. 26: New Faculty Program: Rewriting the Retention Equation: Strategies to Reward, Recognize and Retain Faculty
• Mar. 27: Designing Meaningful CEL Assignments: Assessing Student Learning and Community Impact in CEL Courses
• Apr. 2: Community Engaged Researchers (CEnR) Circle
• Apr. 2: New Faculty Program: Let's Get Intense: Developing or Revitalizing Your WI Course
• Apr. 8: New Faculty Orientation
• Apr. 9: New Faculty Program: Mastering Academic Time Management
• Apr. 16: New Faculty Program: Assessing Student Learning and Community Impact
• Apr. 24-25: International Conference on Implementing Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Medical Education
• Apr. 27: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Apr. 28: New Faculty Program: Managing Stress by Shifting Our Self-Talk
• May 6: Proposal Preparation Program (P3) Summer Cycle 2026 begins
• May 7: Community Engaged Researchers (CEnR) Circle
• May 19: Faculty Development and Engagement Deep Dive Session for New Faculty
• May 20: Faculty Assembly
• Jun. 1: New Faculty Program: View from 20,000 Feet: An Overview of Advising on the Twin Cities Campus
• Jun. 4: Community Engaged Researchers (CEnR) Circle
• Jun. 8: 2026 Medical School Promotion Reception
• Jun. 22: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Jul. 27: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Jul. 27: Proposal Preparation Program (P3) Fall Cycle 2026 application deadline
• Aug. 24: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Sep. 1: University of Minnesota New Faculty Orientation
• Sep. 2: Proposal Preparation Program (P3) Fall Cycle 2026 begins
• Sep. 15: Research Deep Dive Session for New Faculty
• Sep. 28: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Oct. 22: New Faculty Orientation
• Oct. 26: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Nov. 23: Faculty Advisory Council meeting
• Nov. 23: Proposal Preparation Program (P3) Winter Cycle 2027 application deadline
• Dec. 1: Faculty Development and Engagement Deep Dive Session for New Faculty
• Dec. 21: Faculty Advisory Council meeting

Administrative Deadlines (Annually)

• March 15: Adjunct Faculty Annual Activities Report due to department
• April 15: Deadline for Carole J. Bland Award nominations
• May 15: Deadline for sabbatical leave requests
• June 30: Annual appraisals and reviews for all faculty due
• June 30: Adjunct Faculty Annual Activities Report due to OFA
• Aug. 31: CVs for all faculty due
• Sept. 15: Dossiers for Tenure/Academic Track and Clinician Track promotion are due