faculty

Why Some Faculty Choose Leadership

Interest in administrative roles is often held with suspicion by academics. And yet, many high functioning faculty find themselves well-suited to leadership and wonder how they might do more. In fact, academic institutions and disciplines thrive only because of this…

The Importance of Faculty Transitions

The primary stages of a tenure track career are predictable, marked by a small number of highly significant transitions: the degree, an academic position, tenure, promotion, and retirement. Other momentous faculty transitions include changing institutions, shifting research directions, and stepping…

A New Mission

We’ve been pondering the question: Is academia worth it? It’s because of deadlines and emails accumulating until there’s no time left at all, faculty meetings that go nowhere or make things worse, toxic colleagues that no one seems able to…

The Insightful Empathic Faculty

This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment.  See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. In this post we’re…

Are Faculty Good Managers?

This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment.  See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. Today we’re looking at…

The Flexible Faculty

This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment.  See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. How does Flexibility relate…

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