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Access Your Membership

All faculty members, postdocs and graduate students can utilize NCFDD resources free of charge. The UM System Office of Academic Affairs covers the cost of the NCFDD institutional member in its budget so that an unlimited number of eligible users at MU, UMKC, Missouri S&T and UMSL can use these resources for their professional development. You can activate your membership by selecting your institution on the right. If you have any trouble registering of you have questions about the membership, please email membership@facultydiversity.org. 

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T (NCFDD) is an independent faculty development center that offers live and recorded webinars, courses, mentoring, and workshops on a wide variety of topics for faculty at different stages of their careers. Topics range from cultivating your network of mentors and sponsors, engaging in healthy conflict, overcoming academic perfection, mastering academic time management, the art of saying "no," and many others. 

The UM System has an institutional membership to NCFDD, meaning any faculty member, post-doctoral fellow, graduate or professional student at a UM System university can access the breadth of NCFDD resources at any time. 

Resources for Institutional Members

• Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
• Guest Expert Webinars and Multi-Week Courses
• Library of All Prior Trainings
• Monday Motivator
• 14-Day Writing Challenges
• Dissertation Success Curriculum for Graduate Students
• Buddy Matching (by request)

Faculty Success Program (FSP)

The Faculty Success Program is a 12-week virtual bootcamp hosted by NCFDD several times per year. In the FSP, academics work directly with a coach and a small group of other faculty to implement the skills and strategies to maximize their success. The program is for advanced post-docs, tenure-track faculty and tenured faculty looking for coaching and peer support to propel their research productivity and work-life balance to new levels. 

Each academic year, each UM university - MU, UMKC, S&T, and UMSL - will provide scholarships to cover the cost of the program for a select number of faculty to participate in the FSP. Each university will manage its own application process. 

If you have any general questions regarding the UM System's institutional membership, please contact the UM System Office of Academic Affairs at UMAcademicAffairs@umystem.edu.