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Making the Most of Your Academic Affairs Research Partnership

Orientation isn’t just for students. Join EAB for a (re)orientation to learn what’s in store with your EAB Academic Affairs membership and to make sure you’re taking advantage of all of the university research tools and resources to which your institution has access. This session is best suited for Provosts and Vice Presidents, Academic Affairs.

Special Joint Session for Provosts and Chief Research Officers

Please join us in Washington, DC next April for unique two-day meeting that will bring together Provosts and Chief Research Officers in a cross-silo conversation on the research enterprise. This session is limited to Provosts, Chief Research Officers, and Vice Presidents, Research.

Research and Services

Toolkit for Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs

This toolkit is designed to help academic leaders continue their work in combating faculty burnout and promoting a culture of well-being in academic affairs.

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Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs: On-Demand Materials

Explore the materials from this two-part series on ‘Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs,’ which convened academic leaders in virtual forums to discuss the long-term strategic importance of bolstering support and fulfilling their role as an academic leader that builds a workplace that actively combats burnout.

Overcoming Historical and Systemic Barriers to Institutional Racism

Becoming an anti-racist institution involves conscious, active, and ongoing effort. In this webinar, participants will learn about the anti-racist behaviors and actions that span across unit and function to transform the experiences of ethnic and diverse populations on campus.

Compendium of inclusive tenure and promotion policy

This compendium features 8 institutional examples of equitable approaches to tenure evaluation. When adopted widely, these efforts can help improve BIPOC faculty retention.

Quick Reads

4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders

Read four takeaways from EAB’s conversations with academic leaders on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being.

How flashpoint response impacts faculty well-being

To support faculty well-being, academic affairs leaders should consider these reflection questions and checklist items before responding to flashpoints and climate-related incidents.

The faculty burnout epidemic: Thought leaders we are reading, listening to, and following right now

Faculty are experiencing pandemic-induced career setbacks, change fatigue, looming trauma from the past two years, depleted community connections, and financial stressors imposed by inflation. To support academic leaders in their efforts to tackle faculty burnout, EAB’s faculty well-being research team has curated a list of top resources and thought leaders on the topic of faculty burnout.

Experts

Associate Director
Managing Director, Research Development
Senior Director, Strategic Research

5 mistakes in higher ed COVID-19 strategy

We’ve identified the five greatest mistakes in current COVID-19 response that are jeopardizing crisis recovery and post-crisis strategy.

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Academic Affairs Forum

Helping Provosts, Chief Academic Officers and their teams improve academic resource efficiency, program innovation, and faculty development through peer-tested strategies and insights.

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