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Supporting Faculty and Academic Excellence Open House

Date: Thursday, February 5
Time: 10:00 - 11:30am
Remarks: 11:00am
Location: 755 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 102
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Event Description

As part of the University-wide effort to support faculty excellence and growth, we invite you to an open house reception on Thursday, February 5 for faculty to meet three dynamic teams supporting the professional development of faculty and trainees. Join us to learn more about the mission and work of BU Faculty Development, the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, and the Graduate & Postdoctoral Success team within Graduate Affairs as they help to advance teaching, learning, and scholarship. Refreshments will be served and a short program, including remarks from President Gilliam and Provost Waters, will begin at 11 am.

Participating Offices

BU Faculty Development advances the intellectual growth and professional development of faculty by offering impactful educational opportunities across rank, discipline, and college. As part of the University’s mission to advance faculty excellence, BU Faculty Development partners closely with schools and colleges to foster faculty growth and excellence in support of scholarship, career success, and teaching.

The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning partners with faculty across BU’s schools and colleges to advance academic innovation and elevate teaching and learning at scale. The Institute supports inclusive, evidence-based pedagogies; advances the responsible and ethical use of digital, emerging, and AI-enabled technologies; and leads initiatives such as the Shipley Academic Innovation Fund, the Large Classroom Transformation Initiative, and Campus LX, which empowers faculty to leverage BU’s next generation learning management system through the transition to Blackboard Ultra. Through these and other efforts, the Institute serves as a catalyst for academic and curricular innovation in service of student success, distinction, and impact across the University.

The Graduate & Postdoctoral Success team, within BU Graduate Affairs, supports the professional development of masters, professional, and PhD students as well as postdoctoral scholars. The office offers an expansive professional development curriculum for PhDs, postdocs, and faculty members at BU, providing workshops, panels, and training events throughout the academic year.

The Art of Saying No

In this webinar, you will learn: the biggest mistakes faculty make in responding to requests, how to identify and disrupt problematic patterns, our favorite strategies that you can implement immediately so you can add "no" to your vocabulary.

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Mastering Academic Time Management

Participants will learn the three biggest mistakes that new faculty make in managing their time: why and how to align work time with institutional and personal priorities, how to create time for academic writing and research, and how to organize a network of support and accountability for writing productivity and balance.

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From the Chair’s Perspective: Insights on Academic Leadership

This series provides an insider's look at the realities of serving as a university department chair. Over four sessions, veteran chairs will share their experiences and perspectives on this uniquely vital leadership role.

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“What I Wished I Would Have Known after Becoming a Full Professor”

In this session, a panel of full professors from different disciplines and institutions will share their experiences, insight, and advice to support the success of soon-to-be and new full professors.

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How to Manage Stress, Rejection & the Haters in Your Midst

Join NCFDD to learn the impact that stress and negativity can have if they are not managed, identify the most common areas of stress in academic life, concrete strategies for managing the physical, emotional, and attitudinal effects of stress.

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How to Engage in Healthy Conflict

In this webinar, you will learn how conflict-management is an essential part of thriving in the Academy. How to decide when to push back and when to pull back in the face of conflict. The difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict. How to get clear about the role that power plays in resolving departmental conflicts. Ten tips for engaging in healthy conflict.

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Overcoming Academic Perfectionism

In this webinar, you'll learn the features of academic life that intensify perfectionism, strategies to identify when your perfectionism is at work, and the secret to finding real satisfaction in every step of the writing process.

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Cultivating Structural and Systemic Change for Mid-Career Faculty Advancement

The purpose of this webinar is to provide academic leaders with strategies and tools that can help them support mid-career faculty by demystifying and clarifying how to reach the next rung of the academic career ladder.

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