Workshop Facilitator: Dr. Rosemarie A. Roberts, Professor at the University of Connecticut and NCFDD
The Post-Tenure Pathfinders workshop creates a space for tenured faculty to pause and consider what they want now that the long-term goal of getting tenure has been met. After tenure, a wide vista of opportunities (or “pathways”) appear and this is an opportune time to make a conscious, deliberate choice not driven by external expectations, but what you really want and who you are. Without this space for reflection and self-discovery, many faculty don’t make a conscious transition and end up overworked, exhausted, and burnt out. In other words, their post-tenure self is the same as their pre-tenure self. This two-hour workshop is designed to disrupt and restructure our unconscious ideas about what is possible for faculty post-tenure, by teaching the process for choosing and actualizing one’s post-tenure pathway. In partnership with the Five College’s Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Program, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.