National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
The 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.
- —10-webinar course covering everything from strategic planning, time management, professional networking, and publishing.
- —a course to facilitate healing from racial trauma
- —a 4-webinar series on building mentoring networks
- Finding (and Keeping!) Joy in Academic Writing and Research
- —a 4-session course for department chairs
- —Set of webinars and articles to help faculty cope with particularly difficult times.
—A set of online tools to help keep you accountable to meeting your daily writing goals
—need an off-campus buddy to keep you accountable to your writing goals? Sign up to be (and receive) a writing buddy.
()—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.
—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