More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Unlocking Mid-Career Potential: Using Data and Insight to Drive Faculty Success 
In this session, we’ll identify challenges that mid-career faculty experience through the lens of Academic Impressions’ Faculty Retention Survey. We’ll also share a framework that you can use to understand your mid-career faculty needs and direct your efforts for the most impact.  

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment: Developing Faculty Awareness about Leading in Place 
We’ll open this session with a group discussion about what leading in place entails for mid-career faculty, and the skills and mindset needed to excel in that space. Then we’ll explore how the Five Paths to Leadership® model can help mid-career faculty to build these skills and develop the self-awareness they need to succeed in a wide variety of roles. 

Leveraging the Five Paths to Help Faculty Reconnect with Their Purpose  
In this second part of the Five Paths to Leadership® debrief, you’ll explore a strategy for leveraging insights from the Five Paths self-assessment to help faculty to recognize the strengths they are underutilizing so that they can reconnect to their purpose and gain renewed energy for their work. 

Case Study: Cultivating Faculty Leadership Skills 
In this session, learn how a major university partnered with Academic Impressions to design a program that offers ongoing leadership skill development and coaching to cohorts of aspiring and emerging faculty leaders. 

Navigating Mid-Career Growth: Helping Faculty Identify Their Next Steps 
“What’s next?” is an important question many mid-career faculty wrestle with as they navigate shifting priorities, roles, and aspirations. In this session, we’ll explore how grounding mid-career faculty development in career visioning and planning can help faculty to stay on track, get unstuck, and advance with greater clarity and purpose. You’ll also participate in a hands-on visioning activity that you can adapt and use with your own faculty to spark insight and forward momentum.  

Reenergizing Faculty in a Time of Change through Coaching  
Ongoing uncertainties around funding, autonomy, tenure, and the rapidly evolving landscape of higher ed are taking a toll on faculty morale and engagement. In this session, we’ll explore how coaching can be a force-multiplier for building community and helping faculty to regain focus and agency, and to develop the skillset needed to thrive in times of change.  

Leveling Up Research and Scholarship Case Study: The Academy for Scholars as Leaders at Louisiana State University 
A starting point in transforming a culture of service and faculty leadership lies with mid-career faculty who are poised to lead change. Investing in their leadership strengthens research, retention, and the vitality of institutional culture. In this session, you’ll learn how LSU’s Academy for Scholars as Leaders, now in its second year, partners with Academic Impressions to help its mid-career faculty to expand and leverage leadership skills to advance their work as scholars.  

Facilitating Network and Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations at Mid-Career 
We’ll demonstrate a process for helping faculty to identify areas of mutual interest or needs in order to facilitate the sharing of information, resources, or ideas. This helps faculty to identify potential opportunities to pursue through collaboration across disciplines.  

From Insight to Impact: A Mid-Career Faculty Advancement Think Tank 
In this Think Tank session, we’ll identify the challenges that have the greatest impact on mid-career faculty advancement and work together to develop innovative solutions. You’ll leave with actionable ideas and a sense of how you can support faculty engagement and growth on your own campus.  

Academic Impressions workshops provide the opportunity for quality conversations and relationship-building through both formal and informal networking opportunities in an intimate setting. Our in-depth and hands-on approach to learning provides you with actionable takeaways.

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