NCFDD
NCFDD is a nationally recognized innovator in mentoring faculty to succeed in the academy, and provides extensive professional development, training, and mentorship opportunities to academics (faculty, postdocs, and graduate students) across 340 colleges and universities across the US.
CU Boulder's institutional membership with NCFDD includes free sub-account memberships for all faculty, academic professionals, and graduate students, providing access to NCFDD’s extensive online resources including workshops, webinars, and seminars.
- Visit the CU Boulder institutional landing page on the NCFDD website.
- Select “Activate my Membership.”
- Complete the registration form using your campus email address.
- Go to your campus email to find a confirmation/welcome.
- Once your account is activated, you can review and register for events, courses, and webinars.
NCFDD Workshop and Resource Highlights
NCFDD offers on-demand access to a variety of resources and tools, as well as classes and workshops that occur throughout the year.
- The Core Curriculum: In addition to its panels and webinars, NCFDD offers a regular series of skills-based courses to support faculty throughout their career. These include Overcoming Academic Perfectionism, How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice, and How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities, among others.
- 14-Day Writing Challenge: Register for our upcoming challenge to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability.
- Upcoming NCFDD Events: Visit the NCFDD events calendar for information on upcoming NCFDD opportunities. You will need to be logged in on your account to access the NCFDD events calendar.
NCFDD Faculty Success Grants for Pre-Tenured Faculty
Offered by the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Faculty Success Grants fund the enrollment of eligible pre-tenured faculty in NCFDD's Faculty Success Program. The Faculty Success Program is a 10-week program that promotes evidence-based and humanizing strategies for writing productively, provides access to a specialized platform for tracking activities, time, and goal attainment, offers individualized coaching on a weekly basis, and places participants in small peer working groups that feature online interaction and weekly conference calls.
Like many other participants, I found the program transformative in all the right ways. The first six weeks were especially invaluable for developing concrete strategies for staying on track with research and writing in an extremely busy semester. FSP made me rethink how I approach weekly planning and fitting everything in. With the regular writing practice encouraged by the program, I was able to make significant progress on various projects without any additional stress or an increase in working hours.
Isabel Köster, Assistant Professor, Classics, 2022 cohort
Participating in NCFDD's Faculty Success Program was transformative for me as a new assistant professor. It provided me with the tools I needed to balance the myriad of responsibilities associated with mentoring students, starting up and running a research program, teaching, and performing my service assignments. Its focus on strategic planning and time management has allowed me to effectively balance work with my personal life and be successful without needing to work excessive numbers of hours. It was also invaluable in connecting me with peer mentors. I actively recommend this program to anyone starting as a new professor.
Laurel Hind, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2021 cohort
The Faculty Success Program (FSP) gave me space, resources and people to help me prioritize my research, even as a new assistant professor overwhelmed with teaching. Going into the program, I thought I knew a lot about time management and priorities, but I came out with specific new strategies for goal setting and renewing my commitment daily. My accountability group and mentor gave me terrific support and encouragement, and helped me become far more productive than I would have otherwise.
Christine Larson, Assistant Professor, Journalism, 2019 cohort
The FSP has helped me to reflect more broadly on and better align my long-term goals with my daily activities. It has provided me with a set of best practices and strategies that I have experimented with during the summer. Before participating in the FSP, I felt my schedule was constantly driven by urgent and not important needs. The FSP has helped me to create a daily writing habit. I have seen a huge improvement in my productivity this summer and I have learned I don’t actually need big time slots to have some writing done. This will be very beneficial when things start to get busy with the academic year and it’s hard to find time to write.
Cristina Torres-Machi, Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, 2019 cohort
The FSP taught me skills and gave me support that increased my productivity and reduced my stress levels. I continue to use the “Write Now” software that’s part of the FSP Alumni program and I still meet weekly with the accountability group I met four years ago when I went through FSP. We’ve celebrated our successes together and buoyed each other in difficult times. I highly recommend all of NCFDD’s webinars, its 14-day writing challenges, and of course the FSP.
Lucy Chester, Associate Professor, History, 2019 cohort
Participating in the NCFDD FSP was a life saver for me. I was a mid-career associate who was struggling to keep my research agenda moving forward while also balancing a new administrative position, ongoing teaching responsibility, and two young children. The program introduced me to an array of tools that have helped me feel more organized and in control. Strategic planning exercises and accountability groups help keep me on task and productive. But what I really loved was its holistic approach to things. I'm a lot more thoughtful and intentional about what I prioritize. I'm definitely not working harder, I'm working smarter, and my well-being is an important part of that calculus.
Associate Professor, 2017 cohort