Spring 2026 Preparing Future Faculty Program Apply now through November 21, 2025! Date sent: October 20, 2025 The UF Graduate School, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the Center for Teaching Excellence invite you to apply for the Spring 2026 Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program. This upcoming semester’s program will meet online via Zoom from 9:35 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays starting January 15 and ending April 16. The PFF program helps prepare graduate students and postdocs for academic careers in a variety of settings by introducing participants to evidence-based teaching strategies and key features of successful faculty life at different kinds of institutions. Meetings are facilitated via a flipped workshop structure and successful completion of this program requires attending and engaging in weekly meetings, adhering to assignment deadlines, and satisfying a mentoring component. Completion of the PFF program will extend availability for additional certifications through the Center for Teaching Excellence’s Passport to Great Teaching certificate program. This program is open to graduate students and postdocs in any UF department. Participants will be chosen on a competitive basis. For the first time, selected graduate students are eligible to take the PFF course for credit. If selected for PFF and interested in taking the course for credit, students will be given instructions on how to register. (Note that graduate students may still participate in the course if they opt out of the credit-bearing option.) To learn more, view the semester schedule and apply, click here. The deadline to apply is Friday, November 21, 2025.  Questions? Email Dr. Jim Gillespie on our Graduate Student Success team at james.gillespie@ufl.edu.       106 Grinter Hall • 1532 Union Road • Gainesville FL 32611 352 392 6622 • gradschool@aa.ufl.edu • grad.ufl.edu   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!     This email was sent by the University of Florida Graduate School PO Box 115500, Gainesville, FL, 32611