Dear COEHD Faculty,
In case you are not aware, UTSA has institutional membership to the
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) and you can join for free.
Link to join:
https://www.facultydiversity.org/join
About NCFDD
Founded in 2010, the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and
mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. We are 100% dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
Once you join, you will begin to get their newsletter with helpful resources
and events (see below).
Thank you.
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Liliana Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
College of Education and Human Development
The University of Texas at San Antonio
DT Campus: DB 4.226
(210) 458-4480 office
Chat
with me on Microsoft Teams!
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February 2021 Member Newsletter
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Five Tips for Making Your Writing Shorter
by Kate Epstein, editor, EpsteinWords
Full article
here.
It
happens all the time: you write an article that is the right length for a particular outlet, and then you learn you’re going to have to shorten it for some other journal or book. It’s exhausting, I think, to imagine how to take a paper you were happy with
and chuck a thousand or more words without ruining it. But I do it for scholars all the time, and I’ve learned some principles you can use.
Read the
full article.
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The 14-Day Writing Challenge is free to all members. Registration ends March 17 and the program runs from March 22 -
April 4, 2021.
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Cultivating Compassion & Collectivism: A Multi-Week Course to Facilitate Healing from Racial Trauma
February 10 - February 24, 2021 (Wednesdays) 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Facilitator: Della Mosley, PhD, University of Florida
This course will teach participants the connection between trauma, healing, compassion, and collectivism.
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Core Curriculum Webinar:
How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities
February 11, 2021
2:00-3:00 pm ET
Facilitator: Rachel McLaren, PhD, University of Iowa
This webinar will teach participants what works and what DOESN'T work when it comes to weekly planning, and a 30-minute technique to ensure that the most important things get done each day.
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Do you have an idea for a Guest Expert Webinar? Have you ever thought about facilitating a Guest Expert Webinar of
your own? We would love to hear your ideas! Click here to
suggest a webinar topic, and click here to
propose your own guest expert webinar.
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Have you listened to our newest member resource, the Professor-ing podcast? Co-hosts Badia Ahad-Legardy, PhD and Anthony
Ocampo, PhD share the R&R. The real and real-er about life in academia. Episodes are now available on your favorite podcast app!
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Check out our newest newsletter, Dear
Mentors, where NCFDD faculty mentors answer your most burning questions about life in academia. To submit a question, click here.
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Recently Published by Faculty Success Program Alumni
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Emine Fidan Elcioglu, PhD
University of Toronto
Divided
by the Wall offers a one-of-a-kind comparative study of progressive pro-immigrant activists and their conservative anti-immigrant opponents. Using twenty months of ethnographic research with five grassroots organizations, Professor Emine Fidan Elcioglu
shows how immigration politics has become a substitute for struggles around class inequality among white Americans.
Recently published? Let us know at Newsletter@FacultyDiversity.org.
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Welcome New Members!
We are so thrilled to have you here! We want to make sure you are making the most of your NCFDD membership.
Here are a few NCFDD resources
that we don't want you to miss:
Core
Curriculum - 10 key skills necessary to thrive in the academy.
Resource
Library - over 150 webinars with topics ranging from academic publishing to healthy relationships in academia.
14-Day
Writing Challenge - register for our upcoming challenge to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability.
Want to become a member? Join today!
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