Support Your Faculty’s Success at Their Most Crucial Stages

Our resources help faculty across tenure and career tracks to maximize their impact, engagement, and satisfaction—the best antidotes to exhaustion, burnout, and attrition. Key to this support is helping faculty build interpersonal and leadership skills that fuel their success as researchers and scholars, engaging and impactful instructors, effective mentors and advisors, and leaders in their disciplines and institutions.

How We’re Different

Our Faculty Development and Leadership Curriculum supports faculty at all stages and disciplines. Faculty gain interpersonal skills that form the foundation for endeavors related to research and scholarship, promotion and tenure, student engagement, career pathway exploration, and well-being.

Our Mid-Career Mentor focuses on the midcareer stage. As faculty enter the mid-career stage, institutional support wanes and responsibilities increase. We offer comprehensive resources for those in this career stage to maintain momentum, increase productivity, explore leadership, and discover new pathways.

Career faculty, often called non-tenure-track faculty, comprise the majority of the professoriate, yet policies, procedures, and practices often exclude them. Our resources provide support for the unique contexts of career faculty’s needs and career trajectories.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is interwoven into all that we do. We understand that you cannot effectively teach a classroom without emotional intelligence. Or communicate without cultural intelligence. Or navigate conflict without understanding bias and privilege. We help to underscore diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of our interpersonal, career, and leadership trainings.

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Faculty are busy, and it's hard for them to engage in time-consuming programs. Our programming is designed to meet faculty where they are, featuring microlearning delivered to their email every week, as well as self-directed options, personalized coaching, and customized programs that we can bring to you.

Faculty Can Engage with our Curriculum in One of Two Ways:

1. Mid-Career Mentor– Launching This September

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The Mid-Career Mentor helps mid-career faculty to maintain momentum, increase productivity, explore leadership, and discover new pathways in their careers. The Mid-Career Mentor is delivered weekly and will provide bite-sized insights and learning to help faculty at this crucial stage of their careers.

2. Resources for All Faculty

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Faculty Development and Leadership Curriculum

Faculty success is rarely driven by research aptitude or domain expertise. It usually comes down to being intentional in your career decisions, strategies to maximize personal effectiveness, strong interpersonal skills, and attention to overall well-being. Our curriculum is designed to support faculty in these areas and covers the following topics:

1: Setting Boundaries & Priority Management

As faculty, you have the flexibility to manage much of your own time and relationships with colleagues and students. As such, you must set boundaries around workload, as well as the emotional demands of working with others. The following list of resources will help you gain the tools to do so effectively.

2: Establishing Well-Being & Realizing Impact

Faculty impact the world through their work. Our resources are designed to help focus energy on what will help you realize your desired impact in your career and establish greater well-being.

3: Managing Imposter Syndrome

The competitiveness, individualism, and emphasis on expertise in higher education creates an environment ripe for imposter syndrome, where people across roles and responsibilities feel as if they are not “enough” or ever “doing enough.” Our resources examine imposter syndrome at the individual and systemic level.

4: Building Resilience

5: Utilizing Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is key to leading self, others, and the institution, as well as inclusive leadership. Emotional intelligence strategies can be utilized by faculty in interactions with students, colleagues, administrators, and the community at large. We currently offer the following resources in this area:

6: Using Cultural Intelligence

With positive and productive interaction at the heart of productivity, faculty need to be able to interact with students and colleagues from different backgrounds and intersecting identities. Our offerings in cultural intelligence help faculty learn strategies for engaging with respect and empathy in ways that relate their various roles and functions within an institution.

DEI Foundations: Intersectionality in Higher Education

Essential Practices for Leaders Communicating Across Difference

Cultural Intelligence: A Training for Higher Ed Leaders

Techniques to Build Greater Cultural Humility

Understanding and Interrupting Privileged Classroom Practices

7: Communicating Across Situations & Audiences

Effective communication is tailored to the audience and situation at hand. Faculty must communicate and collaborate with numerous and diverse groups to advance their work and meet their goals. Building your capacity to do so more effectively will enhance your work, relationships, and impact.

8: Navigating Conflict

9: Crafting a Meaningful Career

Faculty have significant autonomy over their career trajectories but are often told that short term goals take priority over long term planning. There are also varying degrees of resources and support as faculty progress through their career, both for tenure track and career faculty. As such, by engaging in iterative planning, you allow yourself space for intentional exploration of different pathways.

10: Building a Brand

Faculty are the core of the knowledge creation at their institutions and within their disciplines. Whether it be how to achieve broader reach and impact of your work, translating work for a nonacademic audience, discovering different mediums for disseminating your work, or accurately representing who you are as a scholar, building your brand requires intentionality and follow through.

11: Building & Maintaining a Network

Successful faculty need a network of mentors and peers to give them feedback and support. Building a network within, as well as outside of one’s department and institution helps sustain a research practice, develop innovative teaching, and advance faculty careers.

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What is Membership with Academic Impressions?

Membership with Academic Impressions is the most comprehensive online professional development subscription specifically designed for staff and faculty in higher education. Our resources support leaders, staff, and faculty at all levels with trainings on leadership development, personal development, and job-specific skills.

Join hundreds of member institutions and use this year to make professional development a regular occurrence instead of a once-a-year annual meeting.

What Does Membership Include?

Access to a continuously expanding library of live online trainings, designed to be practical, discussion-based, and highly experiential

Unlimited anytime, anywhere access to on-demand trainings and resources that you can engage with on your own time from the convenience of your workspace

New trainings every week, designed to respond to the latest needs of the higher ed community

$250 discount on multi-week cohort-based bootcamps and in-person conferences

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Faculty Coaching

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Our faculty coaching package is an individualized program designed to support your faculty as they establish themselves and excel as scholars, take charge of their careers, and balance numerous competing demands, while also providing accountability to help them to achieve their goals.

Coaching Can Help Faculty To:

Navigate the Tenure Track Process

Maintain Productivity

Step Up Your Leadership

Steer Your Career

Establish Your Academic Legacy

Build Your Network

Customize the Topics for Your Division or Institution

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Maximize team learning and team cohesion by customizing our supervision development curriculum to meet your specific needs and objectives.

Great for Teams - Tailored to meet needs of campus

Can be in person, virtual, or blended

Training can stand alone or be used to supplement existing programs

Maximize team learning and team cohesion by customizing our faculty success curriculum to meet your specific needs and objectives.

Academic Impressions works with dozens of institutions to customize training based on the unique needs of each campus. We take a flexible approach to in how we design each workshop.

We can provide one- or two-day workshops to kick-off and capstone an annual cohort-based program, including providing multiple assessments and personalized coaching.

We can supplement existing programs or provide a full end-to-end solution for an institution’s faculty success program. In these cases, we assist with everything from identifying participants (criteria, process, etc.), managing all participant communication, designing and customizing every aspect of the program, bringing in assessments and coaching, assessing the program’s effectiveness, and more.

Customize and bring one of these programs to your team:

Inclusive Pedagogy Best Practices and Strategies
Building Inclusive Faculty Mentoring Programs
Maintaining Momentum, Productivity, and Purpose: A Program for Mid-Career Faculty

Questions?

Meghan Paladino
Director of Institutional Partnerships,
Academic Impressions

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