Leadership Development and Support

NEW Opportunity from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement (OVPFA)

  • The Leadership Initiative for Faculty Training and Mentorship (LIFT) supports mid-career faculty interested in pursuing leadership roles at Columbia by demystifying and developing core competencies relevant to the realities of academic leadership roles today and strategizing key networks and actions pertinent to future roles.
    • Interested in joining? Complete this form or email us
  • COMING SOON: 
    • Monthly Leadership Convenings
    • Chair Peer Exchange Groups

 

Additional Support from OVFPA 

  • Faculty development sessions: We offer sessions on a range of topics each semester. See what we have coming up here
  • Resources and webinars via NCFDD: Columbia University is an institutional member of the NCFDD, a nationally-recognized independent organization dedicated to supporting faculty, particularly under-represented faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
    • All Columbia faculty have access to
      • On-demand webinars and professional development resources
      • Grant funding resources and guidance
      • Additional NCFDD programming and tools
    • Useful Links:
      • Set up your NCFDD account now
      • Download the Tenure/Mid-Career Faculty Guidebook 
      • See upcoming events here
      • Browse the library of resources here

 

Additional Resources on Mentorship

  • Center for Teaching and Learning: The CTL partners with faculty, graduate students, and colleagues across Columbia to support excellence and innovation in teaching and learning. View Upcoming Events, take advantage of Self-Paced Courses, and access Additional Resources. 
  • Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER): CIMER aims to foster inclusive excellence and professional development in research environments. It develops, implements, and studies evidence-based, culturally responsive interventions to improve research mentoring for both mentors and mentees. Its curricula includes Entering Mentoring, Entering Research, Mentoring Up, and more.
  • Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL): The CIRTL mission is to develop future faculty committed to implementing and advancing evidence-based teaching practices to enrich undergraduate education that is accessible to all learners. Columbia is part of the CIRTL Network.
  • Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center: The center offer an equity-minded mentoring toolkit that was designed to engage mentors in deeper thinking about how mentoring relationships in graduate education can embody equity-mindedness. The exercises in the Equity-minded mentoring toolkit are designed to help establish shared understandings of mentoring expectations and facilitate conversations about equity in mentoring relationships.
  • Faculty Advancement Network (FAN): The Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) is a consortium of national research universities collaborating to advance excellence at scale through a thriving professoriate. The network is led by a Steering Committee with expertise across faculty affairs, advancement, development, diversity, inclusion, and graduate education who agree: systemic challenges demand collaborative solutions. To that end, the community of practice is continually seeking collaborations of consequence that reimagine the norms, structures, policies, and programs that shape university cultures and the academic workforce.