Faculty Affairs Resources
Faculty Development
ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development
ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development oversees, creates, and assesses faculty development programs while serving as a resource to interested parties on the Northeastern University campus. The office assists faculty and administrators in accomplishing departmental, college, and university goals with respect to faculty recruitment, retention, mentoring, and advancement.
- Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (M2AP)
- Mentoring Discussions
- Faculty Writing Groups
- ADVANCE Faculty Networks
- ReDI Leadership Program
Work-Life Balance
Whether you’re dealing with a personal situation or looking for reliable child care, our work-life benefits can provide assistance.
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Leave Policies – Faculty members with questions about accessing policies specific to faculty appointments are welcome to consult with the associate deans with responsibility for faculty affairs in the colleges or with the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Human Resources can provide information on Northeastern’s childcare program, Family and Medical Leave procedures, and other benefits related questions.
Faculty Professional Development in the Network
Fall 2024 Series
September 18, 2024 | Charlotte campus save-the-date
October 9, 2024 | Oakland campus save-the-date
Slide deck: “Faculty Research Collaborations and Development” Presented by Deb Franko
October 10, 2024 | Seattle campus save-the-date
Slide deck: “Faculty Promotion for Full-Time Non Tenure-Track Faculty” Presented by Deb Franko
November 14, 2024 | Roux Institute save-the-date
December 2, 2024 | Arlington campus save-the-date
Spring 2024 Series
February 9, 2024 | Toronto campus save-the-date
March 27, 2024 | Vancouver campus save-the-date
Fall 2023 Series
Faculty Hiring and Recruitment
Hiring Documents and Guidance
- Full-time Faculty Recruitment: Outline of the Process and Recommended Resources
- Guidance for Conducting Interviews
Tenure-on-Entry (TOE) Candidates
- Guidelines for Tenure-on-Entry Faculty Hires updated 2/25/2025
- Faculty Candidate Curriculum Vitae Cover Sheet (Provost Cover Sheet) updated 2/25/2025
Postdoctoral Future Faculty Applications
Workshops and Guidance Documents
Faculty Tenure and Promotion
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion
- Tenure Description in Faculty Handbook
- Preparation and Format of Tenure and/or Full Professor Promotion Dossiers (“Model T&P Dossier”) updated July 1, 2025
- Preparing for the Midcourse (Third-or Fourth-year) Review Workshop slides. Watch the Recorded Session.
- Preparing for Tenure Review Process Workshop slides. Watch the Recorded Session.
- Preparing for Promotion to Full Professor Workshop slides. Watch the 2020 Recorded Session.
Full-time Non Tenure-Track Faculty Dossier for Promotion
- Preparing for Promotion for Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Workshop slides. Watch the Recorded Session.
- Preparation and Format of Full-Time Non Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion Dossiers (“Model Promotion Dossier”)
- Preparation and Format of Cooperative Education Coordinators Promotion Dossiers
- Preparation and Format of Research Faculty Model Promotion Dossiers
Full-time Non-tenure Track Faculty
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
The Fulbright Scholar Program awards more than 800 fellowships each year to US academics so they can conduct research and teach across the globe. These prestigious awards provide scholars the opportunity to learn about, and contribute to, communities in over 135 countries. More than 50% of the awards offer funding for dependents as well, making Fulbright awards ideal for sabbaticals and other leaves. To learn more about the Fulbright Program, including resources for applicants, please contact Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Administration, at r.dyal-chand@northeastern.edu, 617-373-3493.
Honorific Awards and Recognition
The recognition and celebration of our exceptional faculty stands as a key priority of the university. Through our faculty Honorific Awards Initiative team, we are committed to supporting and advancing recognition of our scholars’ outstanding contributions at national and international levels. Our dedicated site and bimonthly newsletter provide resources and information about prestigious external opportunities, while celebrating faculty achievements across the university.
- Honorific Awards SharePoint Site (Link coming soon)
For inquiries about awards or nomination support, contact Otonye Braide-Moncoeur, Provost Fellow for Faculty Awards and Recognition, at o.braide-moncoeur@northeastern.edu.
Internal Grants
- Professional Internal Grants for Transforming Interdisciplinary Experiential Research (TIER)
- Full-time Faculty Development Fund Guidelines
- Part-time Faculty Development Fund Guidelines
- Part-time Faculty Development Fund Guidelines for Faculty Teaching Online or Non-Boston Based-Courses Only
- Full-time Non Tenure-track Faculty (FTNTT) Fellowship Program Guidelines (2025-2026) updated 12/10/2024
- ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program for Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty
- 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Sabbaticals – Guidelines
New Faculty Orientation
Ombuds Office
The Ombuds: Diane Levin, J.D., CO-OP
The Ombuds for Faculty and Staff serves as an off-the-record, neutral, and informal resource for Northeastern University employees seeking assistance with work-related concerns.
Communications with the Ombuds are confidential, and the Ombuds Office is independent of all other University offices.
You may contact the Ombuds as a first step or a last resort—or at any point along the way—to discuss any work-related issue or problem. The Ombuds will listen to your concerns, connect you to resources and information, help you evaluate your situation, and explore and assess avenues for resolution. At your request and as appropriate, the Ombuds may reach out to others on your behalf to seek additional information or clarification to better understand an issue. The Ombuds can provide coaching with written and verbal communications, assist through shuttle diplomacy or informal mediation, or simply be present in a discussion as a neutral.
The Ombuds can help you assess the potential benefits and risks associated with different courses of action so that you can determine how to address the issue most safely and effectively. You control the process and decide what actions if any you might take.
For additional information about the Ombuds Office for Faculty and Staff, please view the Northeastern University Ombuds Offices Terms of Reference (developed in conjunction with the Graduate Ombuds Office).
Part-Time Faculty
Publications on Faculty Affairs
Work Published by Members of the Office of Faculty Affairs
- Supporting college student mental health: A university-wide partnership (Cogent Mental Health, 2025)
- The New England Future Faculty Workshop: Paving the Way for Increased Representation in the STEM Professoriate (ACS Publications, 2024)
- If Not Now, When? Leadership Development for Black and Latino Faculty (The Journal of Faculty Development, 2023)
- The Research Leadership Development Initiative (ReDI): Fostering Potential in Mid-Career Faculty (The Journal of Faculty Development, 2022)
- From Nothing to Something: The Nuts and Bolts of Building a Mentoring Program in a Health Sciences College (Mentoring & Tutoring, 2016)
- Supporting faculty mentoring through the use of creative technologies (International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2016)
Research and Scholarship
The Division of Research
Research Enterprise Services: In collaboration with college administrators, NU-RES assists faculty in preparing and submitting their research and sponsored proposals. NU-RES serves as Northeastern’s authorized organizational representative and is the institutional office responsible for review and submission of proposals to external funding agencies (Organized Research and other sponsored activity [i.e. fellowships, travel & dissertation awards]).
- The Office of Research Development offers support and assistance to individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and the colleges in promoting Northeastern research, attracting and securing external research funding, bringing interdisciplinary teams together, and developing and implementing other strategies that increase institutional competitiveness. We are committed to delivering comprehensive resources and professional training to help you achieve your research objectives.
Research Policies
At Northeastern, we are committed to conducting all of our endeavors according to the utmost standards of integrity and ethics, and operating in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and university policies.
Resources and Forms
Teaching Resources
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR)
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Through Research provides support for faculty to enhance their teaching, course development and/or re-design, and creates venues for interaction and engagement with educators across the Northeastern community. Grounded firmly in the learning sciences, and informed through the scholarship of teaching and learning, our consultation services, programs, and resources support faculty at all stages of their careers.
CATLR provides consultations to support the approach and design of an educational research project in your class or program, connect with an education grant funder’s mission and goals, or improve the broader impacts plan of a larger grant program.
AI in Teaching and Learning at Northeastern
Standards and Recommendations for the Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning at Northeastern
What Faculty Need to Know About TRACE
Administered by the Office of the Registrar in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, the TRACE (Teacher Rating and Course Evaluation) survey is utilized for undergraduate and graduate students to rate their satisfaction with their courses and instructors. (Link to a sample TRACE survey.) Academic policies for TRACE were instituted by the 2011-2012 Faculty Senate.
How to Access TRACE Survey Results:
For courses taught in Summer 2025 onward, faculty members can access their TRACE survey results by clicking on the following link: myTRACE 2025-Forward, which navigates to a dashboard in the Explorance platform with TRACE results for each course taught.
For courses taught before Summer 2025, faculty members can access previous TRACE survey results by clicking on the following link: MyTRACE 2015-2025, which navigates to a dashboard in the CollegeNET platform with TRACE results for courses taught.
How to Request Comment Redaction:
Faculty can review their own TRACE reports, including student comments, before they are published and made available to the university community. Faculty have access to their results the evening after grades are due. Redaction requests must be submitted within 10 business days after grades are due and will be sent to the Provost’s Office for review. Faculty may request redaction of any comments that meet either of the following:
Criteria for Redaction:
- Appear to evaluate the instructor on criteria not related to her/his teaching performance and/or on a discriminatory basis. The university’s Equal Opportunity Policy affirms that “Northeastern University does not condone discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, genetics, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, veteran or disability status.”
- Raise allegations of professional impropriety (including harassment or discrimination) on the part of the instructor. Such allegations may be redacted and referred to appropriate university authorities for investigation.
To request redaction of any comment, take the following steps:
- Within each of your TRACE reports, you will find a link entitled “Click here to request redactions.” When you click on this link, you will be directed to a separate login. Select the yellow “SAML” button and use your NU credentials. The landing page is the “Comment Explorer” that shows all comments from all courses you have taught in the semester or term.
- The “Add filters” button allows you to filter by course and review all comments for a specific course.
- For a comment that you wish to redact, click on the redaction icon (the second icon from the left, a “locked paper” icon), and a pop-up window will appear.
- In this window, briefly describe why you think a comment meets either of the two criteria for redaction.
- After you enter your description, click the “submit” button in the bottom-right corner to submit your request.
More detailed information is available from the Registrar here.
For general questions on TRACE implementation and policies, please contact Debra Franko, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, at d.franko@northeastern.edu.
Visiting Appointments
Announcement about Redesigned Exchange Visitor Program Process
Exchange Visitor Process (This link is only available to those with a Northeastern University email address.)
Routing Form
Pay Scheme for Paid Appointments
English Verification
Mental Health Resources
Our Team
Deb Franko, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Jackie Isaacs, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Administration
Otonye Braide-Moncoeur, Provost Fellow for Faculty Awards and Recognition
Jon Barrows, Senior Compensation Analyst for Faculty Affairs
Diane Levin, University Ombuds
Diedra Wrighting, Executive Director, ADVANCE: Office of Faculty Development
Sarah Banning, Assistant Director, ADVANCE: Office of Faculty Development
Sam Stokoe, Program Manager, ADVANCE: Office of Faculty Development
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