Support for New and Continuing Faculty
New and Early Career Faculty
- Relocation support
- Start-up funds for new tenure-track faculty
- New faculty orientations and year-long New Faculty Academy for new full-time faculty
- Faculty mentoring program
Benefits
- Well-rounded benefits package
- TIAA-CREF contributions
- Campus wellness, preventative health care, and work/life balance initiatives
- Fitness facilities
- Tuition-free North Central College attendance for eligible dependents
- Tuition Exchange, Inc., a reciprocal program for eligible dependents at 600 colleges and universities
Faculty Leaves
- Eligibility for a competitive Sabbatical Leave or a Professional Semester Leave after every seven years of full-time service (both programs open to both tenure-line and renewable non-tenure track faculty)
- Academic Leave for Prestigious Awards and Activities
Travel, Research, and Professional Development Support
- Travel Fund to support professional activity (up to $1500 per year)
- Office of Sponsored Research and Programs supporting external grant-writing and post-award management
- Scholarly and Creative Work Grants
- Support for undergraduate researchers
- Broad faculty development programming and services through the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE)
- Opportunities to lead study abroad courses
Recognition
- Endowed Chairs recognizing outstanding teaching and scholarship
- Ruge Fellows program recognizing excellence in teaching
- Annual faculty awards for distinguished teaching, mentoring of students scholarship and creative work, service, and collaboration