| Dear Colleagues,
Last year, Boston University joined the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) for a pilot year. The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. I write now to remind those of you who have not yet taken advantage of our institutional membership that you can still join (details below).
Our institutional membership provides access to all Boston University faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to utilize the NCFDD’s broad range of online virtual programs and resources.
For example, this semester’s remaining webinars are:
Daily Writing for Academic Scientists
2/6/2019 (Wednesday)
Alice Pawley, PhD
Associate Professor
Purdue University
How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities
2/14/2019 (Thursday)
Joy Gaston Gayles, PhD
Professor
North Carolina State University
How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice
3/14/2019 (Thursday)
Rosemarie Roberts, PhD
Associate Professor
Connecticut College
How to Craft and Submit a Winning Book Proposal in 4 Weeks
3/19/2019 – 4/9/2019 (Tuesdays)
Badia Ahad, PhD
Associate Professor
Loyola University Chicago
Mastering Academic Time Management
4/11/2019 (Thursday)
Anthony Ocampo, PhD
Associate Professor
California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Additional resources include:
- Weekly Monday Motivator
- Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
- Monthly Guest Expert Webinars
- Access to Multi-Week Courses
- Access to Dissertation Success Curriculum for graduate students
- Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, & moderated writing challenges
- Monthly accountability buddy matches
- Access to 14-Day Writing Challenges
- Access to the Member Library, which includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings
To unlock your free Institutional Membership, please complete the following steps:
- Go to http://www.facultydiversity.org/join
- Choose your institution from the drop-down menu
- Select “Activate my Membership”
- Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (that e-mail address must include @bu.edu)
- Go to your institution email to find a confirmation/welcome email. Click “Activate Account” in the email.
During our trial year, we will monitor the extent to which this membership has been utilized. At the end of the year, we will solicit feedback about the usefulness of the NCFDD’s resources for BU faculty, graduate students, and postdocs and, through your comments, determine whether or not to continue our institutional membership.
If you have any questions about the membership, please feel free to contact me directly at odi@bu.edu. Any technical questions, meanwhile, may be directed to NCFDD via email at Membership@FacultyDiversity.org.
Sincerely,
Crystal A. Williams
Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion
Professor of English |
