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Mid-Career Faculty Success: Planning for the Year Ahead Before the Year Gets Away From You Faculty affairs leaders spend most of the year responding. A retention concern here, a stalled associate professor there, a dean who needs a program built by fall. The work is real and it rarely lets up. What gets squeezed out is the quieter work of stepping back and asking what you actually want to move forward for your mid-career faculty this year, and why it matters now. Mid-career is where a lot of institutional talent quietly stalls. Faculty who were once your most productive can drift into a long plateau, and the cost of that drift shows up years later in leadership gaps and lost momentum. You know this better than anyone. What youF may not have is a dedicated hour to think it through with intention. This planning tool is that hour. It walks you through five short prompts: your priorities, how they connect to your institution’s goals, what would be different if you acted on them, what you already have to build on, and the challenge you have not yet had the right conversation about. There are no right answers. Download the editable […]