National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) offers numerous resources to support faculty in their career development. Wesleyan is an institutional member, so all faculty have access to the NCFDD resources. Because our on-campus capacity to support faculty is necessarily limited, we encourage all faculty to take advantage of our NCFDD membership to augment our resources. This page offers a brief summary of some of the most useful resources.
Webinars—the NCFDD offers a wide range of mini-courses and webinars on topics of particular interest to faculty. Below is a sample of the offerings.
- Core curriculum—10-webinar course covering everything from strategic planning, time management, professional networking, and publishing.
- Cultivating Compassion & Collectivism—a course to facilitate healing from racial trauma
- Re-Thinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support and Accountability—a 4-webinar series on building mentoring networks
- Preparing materials for tenure and promotion
- Finding (and Keeping!) Joy in Academic Writing and Research
- Managing Multiple Roles: How to be a faculty member and administrator
- Department Chair Intensive—a 4-session course for department chairs
- Tough Times Toolkit—Set of webinars and articles to help faculty cope with particularly difficult times.
14-Day Writing Challenge—A set of online tools to help keep you accountable to meeting your daily writing goals
Writing Accountability Buddy—need an off-campus buddy to keep you accountable to your writing goals? Sign up to be (and receive) a writing buddy.
Faculty Success Program (preview)—Wesleyan will support up to four faculty a year to take part in the Faculty Success Program, an intensive 12-week course for tenured and tenure-track faculty to unlock “explosive productivity” and better work-life balance.
Professor-ing Podcast—Regular podcast covering a wide range of issues related to life as a professor from embracing social media, to launching a second book project, to managing life crises