Offerings
NCFDD offers a range of programs designed to support faculty across career stages and institutional roles. Whether you’re looking for broad institutional solutions or targeted support for specific faculty needs, our proven programs help foster productivity, retention, and professional growth.
Programs
Faculty Success Program
A structured, intensive program that equips faculty with the skills and strategies to increase research productivity, establish sustainable writing habits, and maintain work-life balance. This program provides expert coaching, accountability, and a supportive community to help faculty overcome common career roadblocks.
Designed for:
Early Career Faculty | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty
Department Chair Success Program
Tailored specifically for department chairs and academic leaders, this program offers tools and strategies to navigate leadership challenges, support faculty effectively, and create a thriving departmental culture. Participants gain insights into fostering faculty development, handling administrative complexities, and leading with confidence.
Designed for:
Mid-Career Faculty | Faculty Leaders | Senior Faculty
Post-Tenure Pathfinders
A program designed to help tenured faculty navigate the next phase of their careers with clarity, purpose, and renewed motivation.
Designed for:
Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty | Faculty Leaders | Senior Faculty | Administrators
Courses
Building Your Publishing Pipeline
A course for faculty who need a clearer way to manage multiple writing projects at once. Learn how to map projects across stages, identify stalled work, and make informed decisions about where to focus next. The emphasis is on building visibility across your body of work and maintaining steady research progress over time, even as priorities shift.
Designed for:
Grad Students | Early Career Faculty | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty | Senior Faculty
Rethinking Your Research Funding Course
This new four-week course offers a fresh, practical approach to pursuing funding beyond large federal grants. Faculty learn how to identify and prioritize opportunities with foundations, industry, and local government, build funder relationships, and develop a strategic funding plan. Designed to complement the work of your research office, this course helps faculty move from uncertainty to momentum.
Designed for:
Grad Students | Early Career Faculty | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty | Senior Faculty
14-Day Writing Challenge
A structured, short-term challenge designed to help faculty jumpstart their writing productivity in a focused, supportive environment.
Designed for:
Grad Students | Early Career | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty | Senior Faculty
Workshops
Campus Workshops
Interactive, live workshops that provide faculty with essential skills in productivity, time management, and professional development.
Designed for:
Early Career Faculty | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-Career Faculty
Rethinking Mentoring Workshop Series
The Rethinking Mentoring Program is a multi-part workshop series designed to help campuses modernize their approach to mentoring to fit the diverse needs of faculty. Built around COACHE benchmarking data and NCFDD’s mentoring framework, the program equips faculty and leaders to improve mentoring outcomes through leadership development, mentor training, and network-building. Whether you’re supporting early-career faculty or strengthening department-wide mentoring practices, this program offers a flexible, scalable strategy to meet your goals.
Designed for:
Early Career Faculty | Alt-ac | Tenure Track | Mid-career Faculty | Senior Faculty | Administrators | Faculty Leaders
