ERIC Number: EJ1438561
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-2153-1900
EISSN: EISSN-2153-1919
Faculty Networking across Disciplines: Exploring a Transdisciplinary Networking Approach
James Blair; Lisa Kay; Lee Allison; Cassie Bradley
Journal of Faculty Development, v38 n3 p86-89 2024
Increasing career demands and expanding role expectations in a hyperconnected world batter higher education professionals, much like a tsunami of crashing waves toss a dingy at sea. To overcome the onslaught, professors are all but mandated to proactively build personal brands that deliver value propositions tightly aligning skills, expertise, and values of respective professionals, sub-units, and the institutions within which they operate, blurring and broadening branding boundaries. Long task lists, scarce time, and frazzled professionals, beckon for mechanisms that scale effort and activity to deliver results and efficiency. This article proposes a framework supporting adoption of transdisciplinary networking as one such effective scaling method. By hosting such events, colleges scaffold a variety of salutary effects that align with faculty development across teaching, research, and service areas.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Social Networks, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development, Faculty Workload, Collegiality, Interprofessional Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Efficiency, Job Simplification
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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