2026 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Conference
Making it Count: Leveraging Teaching Excellence in Your Career Growth
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 | 8:30am-12:15pm
This conference brings together non-tenure track faculty to recognize their essential contributions, explore topics and strategies for professional development, and build networks to support career planning and faculty success.
This annual event is geared towards non-tenure track faculty, however, all faculty, department chairs, associate deans, and deans are welcome to attend.
Conference Keynote
Nancy L. Chick, Executive Director of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship & Professor of English, Texas Woman’s University
Nancy Chick is a SoTL scholar, scholarly teacher, and faculty developer. In 2011, she left full-time faculty work as an English professor to focus on SoTL. She has many publications on the results of her SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL, including her new open access book The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, co-written with Peter Felten and Katarina Mårtensson. Nancy was also the founding co-editor of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). Learn more about Nancy Chick >>
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