Academic Leaders

NCFDD Academic Leadership and Career Advancement Resources

Free webinars available with our NCFDD membership

• Academic Leadership: Cultivating Your Mentorship Network
• Stepping Up: When, Why, and How to Move into Academic Leadership Roles
• What I Wished I Would Have Known as an Academic Leader and University Administrator
• What I Wished I Would Have Known: Transitioning to Department Chair
• From the Chair’s Perspective: Insights on Academic Leadership (A Multi-Week Course)
  • Week #1: It’s All About the Relationships
  • Week #2: You’re The Boss and Other Myths About Being Chair
  • Week #3: Little Fires Everywhere
  • Week #4: Live Q&A Session
• Managing Multiple Roles: How to Be a Faculty Member and an Administrator
• Knowing Your Worth: How to Approach Negotiations in Academia
• Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Approaches for Academic Leaders
• Strengthening Your Department Chair Playbook: Spotlight on Faculty Development Strategies
• Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed: Building Resilience

Additional Resources

Equitable and Transparent Faculty Workloads Policy

NDSU Policy 322 acknowledges that faculty perform a wide variety of tasks determined by the requirements of their discipline and by the mission of the University. The policy was enacted to establish a fair, equitable, and transparent allocation of workload among all non-administrative full-time faculty, including tenure-line faculty, professors of practice, and lecturers of all ranks. This policy sets the expectation that academic units will develop and maintain a workload assignment plan that is tailored to their unit and recognizes the types of teaching, research/creative activity, and service duties performed by full-time faculty within their unit.

Equity Minded Faculty Workloads

The unequal distribution of faculty workload is one of the most important, yet least talked about, inequities that shape the experiences of faculty members within colleges and universities. Identifying and dismantling systems that maintain unequal workloads reduces avoidable delays to advancement, higher stress, increased burnout, and greater willingness to leave the university. The ACE report and set of resources offers examples of policies, tools, and practices that promote the development of equitable workloads for your department.