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Academic Professional Development

Academic Professional Development programming supports faculty and academic staff at key career stages—from entry to promotion, through late career and retirement—helping them build meaningful professional and personal lives while contributing to MSU’s mission.

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Leadership Professional Development

A range of skills and responsibilities are critical to administrative roles, which commonly involve a blend of leadership, management, and service.  These skills and responsibilities will form the foci for training and mentoring and will be available in a variety of formats.  We focus on both enhancing the success of current leaders and cultivating future leaders at MSU.

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Awards & Recognition

The faculty of Michigan State University possess great underlying strengths that are recognized at every level – internationally and nationally, locally and internally. Such honorifics elevate the stature of the university’s intellectual work to national and global prominence and foster a community of scholars with high standards and aspirations. These awards recognize the outstanding accomplishments, achievements, and contributions of our exceptional researchers, educators, and community members and bring great pride to the institution.

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Upcoming Events

January
9
2026

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-In

Friday, January 9, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom and Kellogg Center, Room 93
Categories: MSU Partner Event Research & Scholarship Teaching & Learning
Tags: Academic Staff Faculty Graduate Students

Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students Would scheduling regular, specific times to write about your outreach or engagement work be helpful? If so, please join us on the first Friday of each month for three hours of dedicated time to advance...

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January
15
2026

Critical Friends Peer Mentoring Session

January 15, 2026, from 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Categories: Leadership Development

This opportunity is open to all department chairs, school directors, associate deans in non-departmentally organized colleges and directors of academic programs similar to departments/schools. This program will focus on developing a community of peers, by providing a venue to give and receive...

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January
16
2026

Write Winning Grants – 2026

Friday, January 16, 2026, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Webinar
Categories: MSU Partner Event Research & Scholarship
Tags: Graduate Students Research Faculty Research Staff

Writing a successful grant proposal begins with a strong strategy. This highly regarded two-day (January 16 and 23) webinar is designed for faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and our partners from Henry Ford Health who have some experience with grant writing. Write...

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Refinding Center

- OFASD Blog
Coming back from spring break, we always seem to feel a mix of emotions. Perhaps some renewed perspective following a bit of time away, recognition that some things on the extensive to-do list will still get done and some likely will...
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