Transform mid-career faculty potential through targeted, impactful professional development and support.
What You'll Gain
- A flexible framework to understand and address the unique needs of your mid-career faculty so you can direct resources most impactfully.
- Actionable methods to assist faculty in overcoming mid-career stagnation, facilitating intentional career advancement and renewed enthusiasm in your faculty.
- Tools to promote and manage cross-disciplinary research collaborations, empowering faculty to think outside-the-box and expand their scholarly impact.
- Use the Five Paths to Leadership® model to help faculty develop essential leadership skills and self-awareness for both formal and informal leadership roles.
- Engage in a free 30-minute consultation session with one of Academic Impressions’ Faculty Vitality experts.
Overview
In the face of faculty attrition, stagnation, and an increasing void in faculty leadership, how can universities help support and build satisfaction among their mid-career faculty? Using insights from our Faculty Retention Survey, Academic Impressions has developed a framework to help faculty affairs leaders reengage mid-career faculty in career planning, leadership, and research and scholarship. Join us in Denver to design actionable and integrated professional development for your mid-career faculty.
To preserve an intimate and productive experience, this summit is capped at 30 attendees.
Session Descriptions
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:
If You Build It, Will They Come? A Framework for Designing Faculty Development that Mid-Career Faculty Will Engage With
In this session, we’ll review results from the Academic Impressions Faculty Retention Survey about the mid-career faculty experience. We will share a framework you can use to more effectively understand your mid-career faculty’s needs so you can direct your efforts for the most impact.
Curbing Career Stagnation: Helping Faculty Discover Their “What’s Next?”
“What’s next” is a quintessential question for many mid-career academics, one that often leads to stagnation and overwhelm. In this session, you will learn about the power of career planning as a strategy for helping mid-career faculty stay on track, get unstuck, and advance in their careers with intentionality. You will participate in a career visioning activity that you can take back and use with your mid-career faculty, regardless of where they are in the mid-career stage.
Case Study: Helping Faculty at the Associate Professor Level for 7+ Years Get Unstuck
Join us to hear from a global university as they describe how they partnered with Academic Impressions to help their mid-career faculty accelerate their career advancement.
Leveling Up Research and Scholarship: Facilitating Network and Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations at Mid-Career
In the mid-career stage, leveling up research and scholarship often means pivoting and engaging in cross-disciplinary collaborations and larger research initiatives, tasks that require a new set of skills. In this session, we will explore a process to help faculty identify areas of mutual interest or needs to facilitate the sharing of information, resources, or ideas so they can identify opportunities that can be pursued or supported through collaboration and learn effective ways of working together across disciplines.
Mini-Consultation Sessions
During breakfast on the second day, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with one of Academic Impressions’ faculty vitality experts to focus on a specific challenge you are facing.
Leading in Place: Using the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment to Elevate Skill and Self-Awareness
The assumption of leadership roles, both formal and informal, is an important consideration for many mid-career faculty. This session will open with a group discussion about specific soft skills—such as managing projects and people, developing collaborations in and outside the university, navigating conflict, and building buy-in for their research—that mid-career faculty need to do their work more effectively. Then, we will introduce the Five Paths to Leadership® model as a way to help mid-career faculty build these skills and develop the self-awareness they need to succeed in a wide variety of leadership roles.
From Idea to Action: Mapping Out a Plan for Mid-Career Faculty Development
In this closing session, we will reflect on the insights and strategies gained during the summit, and their implications for mid-career development on your campus. You’ll look specifically at three key features of impactful support—Purpose, Outcomes, and Integration—to evaluate your own current gaps and areas of strength.
Who Should Attend
This summit is designed for those who support faculty vitality and development at a variety of levels. Join us if you are:
- Creating new initiatives for mid-career faculty,
- Re-engaging your mid-career faculty, or
- Seeking a new network of faculty affairs professionals.
How You'll Use This to Move Work Forward
- Vice President or AVP of Faculty Affairs - Build data-driven, comprehensive development opportunities for your mid-career faculty to drive engagement.
- Faculty Affairs Divisional Leadership - Map out a plan that identifies gaps and opportunities in your division for supporting your faculty.
- Deans & Academic Leaders - Help your faculty discover what's next in their careers and plan for the future with intentionality.
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What makes our events different?
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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What Our Attendees Are Saying
"The Faculty Affairs Summit created a space for connection around critical issues in faculty affairs. We need culture change not only in our institutions but across all higher ed and this was a safe environment to have authentic discussions and ideate with supportive peers and collaborators. "
"In the absence of an established professional organization dedicated to faculty affairs best practices (a la CUPA-HR, NASPA, HERC, AHEAD, etc.), there is a real need for faculty affairs professionals to come together across institutions and regions to share their experiences and innovations in order to generate standard benchmarks and reliable resources for this critical institutional function. This summit provided exactly the kind of high-level conversation, data-driven recommendations, and sorely needed camaraderie faculty affairs leaders are craving."
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Corinne Nicolas, PhD, PCC
Head of Practice, Faculty Success
Corinne is an ICF-certified coach with a passion for guiding academics as they define their career paths to create impact in their professional lives....Read Full Bio.