SKILL #10: How to Manage Stress, Rejection & the Haters in Your Midst

Presented By: Naomi Levy, PhD, ncfdd Are you stressed? Do you feel devastated when your articles and/or grant proposals get rejected? Is the pressure of publishing/funding your work making you sick? If any of this sounds familiar and you have difficulty managing the negative energy and rejection in your environment, please join us [...]

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Building Strong Peer Communities: A Resource for Leadership and Advancement

Presented By: Sarah Kirk, PhD, ncfdd Mia Bertagnolli, PhD, ncfdd Chrystal Bruce, PhD, ncfdd Hala Schepmann, PhD, ncfdd This interactive webinar will introduce a resource to build and sustain teams of peer support. Peer mentoring strengthens individual and institutional abilities to meet evolving challenges through enhanced personal and professional support leading to improved [...]

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SKILL #9: How to Engage in Healthy Conflict

Presented By: Angelique Davis, JD, ncfdd Do you often feel drained by departmental drama? Do feel unclear how to handle conflicts that arise in your department? Are you unsure when, where, and how to manage conflict with people who will be voting on your tenure? Academics are notoriously conflict avoidant and the inability [...]

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SKILL #8: Overcoming Academic Perfectionism

Presented By: Rachel McLaren, PhD, ncfdd Do you struggle to share your writing at the early stages because it’s not perfect? Do you find yourself devastated by criticism of your work? Do you beat yourself up every time the tiniest thing goes wrong? Is it difficult for you to celebrate other people’s success [...]

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Beyond Course Evaluations: Documenting Teaching for Tenure & Promotion

Presented By: Chavella Pittman, PhD, ncfdd Join us to learn about unfair teaching threats hiding in plain sight, the flawed teaching review process most people just go along with but shouldn’t, and tips for overcoming these obstacles to document your teaching excellence for retention, tenure, and promotion. Register for this event [...]

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14-Day Writing Challenge

Presented By: ncfdd The 14-Day Challenge is an opportunity for you to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability. It's very simple: You commit to write every day for at least 30 minutes. At the beginning of your writing time, you login to our online community, start the timer, complete your [...]

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NCFDD Panel Discussion: What I Wished I Would Have Known: Transitioning to Department Chair

From creating institutional change to supporting students and colleagues, becoming a department chair presents many exciting opportunities. However, this transition can be challenging as department chairs take on new responsibilities, expand their skill sets, manage budgets, and navigate organizational policies and politics. In this session, a panel of current and prior department chairs will [...]

By |2024-03-08T14:10:22-06:00January 26th, 2024|, , |Comments Off on NCFDD Panel Discussion: What I Wished I Would Have Known: Transitioning to Department Chair

SKILL #4: Mastering Academic Time Management

New faculty members commonly describe: Working long hours but making little progress on their research and writing A sense of loneliness that stems from limited mentoring and community Feeling unsupported in their desire for work-family balance and without the skills to achieve it Wondering whether the academic path is the right career choice This [...]

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Student-Centered Mentoring: Bridging the Gap Between Faculty and Students

This workshop is dedicated to enhancing academic mentoring by emphasizing the unique needs and expectations of students, particularly those from diverse backgrounds. It aims to bridge the gap between faculty mentors and their students, helping faculty understand what students of diverse backgrounds want them to know about effective mentoring. In this workshop, we'll explore [...]

By |2024-02-22T09:30:07-06:00January 25th, 2024|, , |Comments Off on Student-Centered Mentoring: Bridging the Gap Between Faculty and Students

SKILL #3: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice

Are you sick of working all the time without making progress on your writing projects? Are you tired of your deadline-driven, binge-and-bust writing routine? Do you wish you could develop a healthy, consistent, daily writing routine that would allow you to meet your department’s expectations for tenure and promotion? In this webinar you'll learn: [...]

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