Office of the Provost

Faculty Development Programs

Throughout the year, we host a variety of programs, workshops, and special sessions to help faculty meet their goals. 

Whether you are a new faculty member, looking to deepen your connections, or move into an administrative role on campus, we have something to support you.

Are you looking for:

New Faculty Programming

Chairs Programming

 

 

New Faculty Programming

Navigating SBU is a year-long program to help you learn Stony Brook's systems and build your network as a Seawolf

Please join us for any and all of the sessions, as your schedule and interests allow. These sessions exist entirely to help you expand your network, discover campus resources, exchange ideas, and connect with your peers. We look forward to seeing you.

This full-day, in-person program will help you get a feel for your new campus community and what it means to be a Stony Brook faculty member.

Over the course of the program, you will:
  • Learn about the university's history and our students,
  • Explore resources that will support your teaching and research/scholarship,
  • Hear about student success and faculty well-being programs,
  • Meet your new colleagues.
Lunch will be provided. 

Check your email for more information and a link to reserve your spot.

For tenure-track faculty only.

Learn more about Stony Brook's promotion and tenure process.

RSVP for the P&T session

Please bring a laptop.

Learn about creating accessible and inclusive digital course materials and the campus resources available to support your teaching.

RSVP to the CELT Session

Join colleagues for a relaxed, informative gathering focused on services and resources that can support your research and scholarship. Topics will include research data management, scholarly publishing, open access, Academic Commons, and other library resources.

Beer, wine, and refreshments will be served.

Join the Library Social

Let's celebrate the end of the semester together.

Join us for an informal evening with your new faculty peers. We'll have beer, wine, refreshments, and great conversations.

We'll review effective practices, discuss lessons learned during the semester, and ask for your ideas about future programming and additional ways we can support you. The things you share will help us continue to improve our programming and develop new initiatives for the future.

RSVP to the Social

 

Connect to Instructional Support Resources

Promotion & Tenure: Provost's Office Process

Check for your departmental process.

Learn about P&T

Explore some of our favorite things about Stony Brook and our local community

Stony Brook Southampton windmill

HR: New Employee Webpage

The university's new employee portal contains information and resources about benefits, required trainings, pay checks, as well as information to help you explore and embrace life on Long Island.

Enter the portal
Port Jefferson Harbor

Connect to your New Community

Now that you're officially part of Seawolf Nation, we've collected (just a few) of our favorite things about life on Long Island and around campus.

Access the Google Doc

 

 

Chairs Programming

Watch your email for invitations to these events. All are invite-only.

All Chairs and Directors Meeting

Every semester, the provost hosts a meeting for all department chairs and center/institute directors. At the meeting, he shares updates about campus initiatives of note to academic units. We always leave lots of time for your questions as well. 

Refreshments will be served.

Best Practices for Faculty Searches

Learn how you can run and support a successful, equitable, and inclusive search for new faculty. We host two sessions about hiring, in partnership with the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Intercultural Initiatives and the Office of Access and Equity:

  • Hiring in STEM fields,
  • Hiring in the humanities and social sciences.

Programming for New Chairs

We host several special programs by invitation only every semester to help new department chairs adjust to their new administrative role.

These invitations will come via email; keep an eye on your inbox for messages from faculty_affairs@stonybrook.edu.

  • Student Affairs and the Career Center
  • Educational and Institutional Effectiveness
  • Ombuds Conversation
  • AI, Wearable Technology, and Title II
  • Budget Conversation with the Provost