2025 Summer Success Institute (SSI)

The PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) is a signature one-day professional development conference designed to support graduate students and postdocs and prepare them to thrive in the upcoming academic year. Whether you’re preparing to begin your graduate journey, navigating your current program, or planning your next career move, SSI has something to offer you!

Expect powerful keynotes, interactive workshops, and meaningful conversations focused on thriving in your academic work, developing your career trajectory, and building a lasting support community to sustain you during challenge and change. This event was intentionally designed to center the experiences and needs of scholars from historically underrepresented backgrounds, while remaining open, welcoming, and beneficial to all members of our academic community, including graduate students, postdocs, undergraduates considering advanced study, and new faculty. We hope you can join us for this dynamic kick-off to the fall semester.