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Connect Your Strategic Priorities to Targeted Faculty Development Your institution’s goals — from increasing faculty retention and research output to fostering a culture of support...
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AASCU Summer Meeting 2025
What Does a Happy Future Look Like? Let’s Talk at AASCU 2025. 📍 July 15-17, 2025 | Indianapolis, IN | Booth #X As public universities...
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From Uncertainty to Clarity: Inside the First Department Chair Success Program
For new and experienced department chairs alike, leadership can feel isolating. You’re expected to manage conflict, mentor faculty, make strategic decisions, and balance countless priorities—often...
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3 Ways to Reframe Your Time around Writing
Author: NCFDD For many faculty, the biggest barrier to consistent writing isn’t a lack of ideas—it’s time. Or more accurately, how time feels. Unstructured. Fragmented....
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How to Translate Research for a General Audience Through Digital Media
By Danielle Bainbridge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Many academics share a commitment to bring our work and expertise to a wider audience outside of...
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Mid-Career Transition: Advice on Moving from Associate to Full Professor
It’s not uncommon for mid-career professors to feel conflicted about going for a promotion to full professor. Once tenure is earned, it’s easy to fall...
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Building Resilience in Times of Uncertainty: Strategies for Faculty and Academic Leaders
Author: NCFDD Uncertainty is a constant in higher education today. As we conclude the Navigating Uncertainty webinar series with the final session, Building Resilience, we reflect on how...
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Identifying and Overcoming Perfectionism in Academic Writers
One of the most pervasive problems with academic writers is perfectionism. It’s ubiquitous and manifests in so many unfortunate ways. There is a unique flavor...
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Beyond the Guru: Rethinking what Mentorship Looks Like in Higher Ed
Author: NCFDD For a long time, academic mentorship has followed a familiar formula: a junior scholar is paired with a more senior colleague—someone with experience,...
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Redefining Mentoring in Higher Education
A white paper from NCFDD and COACHE What does effective mentoring actually look like, how can institutions prioritize it, and how can you obtain it?...
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Beyond the Grant: Practical Approaches to Research Funding in Uncertain Times
Author: NCFDD As we continue exploring the complexities of navigating uncertainty in academia, our second webinar in the Navigating Uncertainty series focused on one of the most...
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