Author: Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD, Founder of the NCFDD March is a time in the academic year when it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, like time is flying by, and that our to-do lists will never end. It’s also the time when the day-to-day stream of requests and demands can begin edging out our commitment to … Read more
Author: Kate Epstein, editor, EpsteinWords It happens all the time: you write an article that is the right length for a particular outlet, and then you learn you’re going to have to shorten it for some other journal or book. It’s exhausting, I think, to imagine how to take a paper you were happy with … Read more
Author: Holly Ketterer, PhD In this time of uncertainty and transition, you may be required to adapt your brick-and-mortar classroom course to the online environment. Below, I share my experiences and some helpful strategies for first time online course developers to engender student engagement and preserve your sanity. I also highlight how NCFDD, my home … Read more
Author: Kate Epstein, of EpsteinWords NCFDD does so much to help their members succeed. They help you plan out your route and set goals and meet them. But when you are journeying those last few miles toward getting one more line on your CV, an editor may be a really valuable companion. If you think … Read more
A Surprising Reason Why Lying Down and Closing Your Eyes for 20 Minutes Might be the Best Productivity Tool of All Author: Benita Jackson, PhD MPH I have seen the United Nations reports about the climate crisis. And I wonder, what possibly can I do in this critical next decade or so that is calling for decisive … Read more
Author: Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD Originally published on Inside Higher Ed. I was recently in a meeting with a president, chief diversity officer and dean at a small liberal arts college. The president launched our conversation by confidently insisting that while lots of people talk about the importance of mentoring, nothing really works, nobody has figured … Read more
Author: Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD I have worked with many academic writers who feel guilty about not writing, overwhelmed by unrealistic goals, panicked about time and stuck in the rut of procrastination. Based on that experience, I know that there are several things you can do that will get you out of your rut and … Read more
Author: Barbara Risman, PhD One ritual shared by all of us with a doctorate is writing a dissertation. For some of us, it’s the most major writing project of our careers, for others it is just a launching pad for a career as a writing professor. But for everyone, it is a hurdle that takes incredible … Read more
Author: Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD It’s been quite a journey over the past five weeks of our collective work to overcome academic perfectionism. We calculated the costs of perfectionism, we learned what the cycle of perfectionismlooks like and how to disrupt it, and we explored concrete strategies for overcoming perfectionism in teaching, service and writing. I love that so many of you experimented with … Read more
Author: Kerry Ann Rockquemore, PhD Originally posted on Inside Higher Ed. Recent news documenting the unhappy state of associate professors was unsurprising to me. I travel to different campuses every week and one of the most frequent requests I receive is to help “stuck” associate professors find their mid-career mojo. And there’s nothing quite like walking into … Read more