National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)
About the NCFDD
The NCFDD is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community composed of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from over 450 colleges and universities. Texas A&M is an institutional member of the NCFDD, granting the following member benefits to all Texas A&M faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students at no individual cost:
- Weekly Monday Motivator
- Core Curriculum Webinars
- 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 that includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings
Activating Your Membership
- Go to https://www.facultydiversity.org/join or click on "Claim Your Membership" below.
- Choose your institution from the drop-down menu.
- Select “Activate my Membership”
- Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (i.e. netid@tamu.edu or netid@tamhsc.edu)
- Go to your institution email to find a confirmation email. Click “Activate Account” in the confirmation email.
Questions/Comments
Contact Dr. Heather Wilkinson, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at facultydevelopment@tamu.edu. If you have any technical questions, please email NCFDD at Membership@FacultyDiversity.org.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
About The Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education has the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities. As the unrivaled leader in higher education journalism, The Chronicle serve its readers with indispensable real-time news and deep insights, plus the essential tools, career opportunities, and knowledge to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
Explore the Content
Texas A&M University supports faculty having access to resources provided by The Chronicle, provides site license access to users on the main campus and encourages viewers to regularly visit The Chronicle's sponsored institution page.
The Chronicle features current events, original pieces, advice columns and publication archive. Story topics are also searchable via the following topics:
- Data
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Finance & Operations
- International
- Leadership & Governance
- Teaching & Learning
- Scholarship & Research
- Technology
- The Workplace
The Chronicle offers virtual and recoded events, both sponsored and hosted by partner institutions, for readers to join discussions with national experts and leading practitioners on how to chart professional courses going forward. Featured virtual events include:
- Events on Leadership
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- Events on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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