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CHM Promotion Bootcamp

The CHM Promotion Bootcamp will begin accepting applications for the next cohort in December 2025.

The CHM Promotion Bootcamp began in the 2024-2025 academic year as an evolution of the college’s efforts to provide useful, sustainable support for career development for early career faculty in the non-tenure systems. A consistent challenge for these faculty is finding mentoring on the assembly of their case for promotion from a mentor with a similar career trajectory and recent experience navigating the promotion process.

The bootcamp is designed for CHM faculty preparing for a promotion or related action1 in the upcoming review cycle. Seats are limited and application is required.

The bootcamp is offered to serve those faculty looking for accountability buddies to get them across the finish line of preparing and submitting their promotion dossiers. If admitted, attendance at all program activities is expected, for your own sake and your buddies’.

Committing to a promotion write-in series like this bootcamp:

  • Removes lots of the good excuses we place in the path of our promotion dreams
  • Creates a container for writing, which helps you actually do it
  • Helps you gain “muscle memory” for writing, so you can pick back up more easily later
  • Signals to yourself that you’re actually, really fully serious about this promotion thing

The bootcamp series includes four synchronous meetings in small groups with mentor support and takes place biweekly from early March to mid-April.

  • Session 1: Planning meeting
  • Session 2: Reflective Essay Write-in
  • Session 3: Portfolio Artifacts Write-in
  • Session 4: CV/Form on P&E Write-in

Following the write-in meetings, mentors will review each participant’s external reviewer package (CV, reflective essay, “sample of scholarly work”, and list of potential reviewers). Mentors and participants will agree on a timeline with a goal of completing the review by May 15. Optionally, the mentor will review the participant’s final dossier by the mentee’s departmental submission deadline.

Check back in December 2025 for access to the application form for those considering applying for a promotion action in the 2026-2027 review cycle.

Questions? Contact Kelly Hodges, Director of Faculty Development and Mentoring Programs, hodgesk@msu.edu.

1: May include reappointment or continuing status review for continuing system academic specialists, Designation B review for UNTF faculty, or reappointment or tenure review for tenure system faculty.

Career Development