NCFDD

The NCFDD is a nationally recognized center dedicated to helping faculty, post-docs, and graduate students make successful transitions throughout their academic careers. They provide professional development and mentoring through a host of resources that are applicable across all fields of inquiry.

Benefits of Individual Membership

Our institutional membership means that all faculty, post-docs, and graduate students from all University of Minnesota campuses have access to NCFDD resources at no cost. The benefits of activating your individual membership and engaging with the available resources can include greater success with getting published, securing grants, increased confidence as a scholar, and healthier relationships with colleagues. Membership includes access to:

  • The Monday Motivator (weekly email including productivity tips)
  • Monthly core curriculum, guest expert webinars, and multi-week courses
  • The Career Center resources
  • Audio and video recordings, slides and transcripts from all webinars
  • Moderated monthly writing challenges and monthly mentor matches
  • Discounted Faculty Success Program registration
  • Online accountability and tracking software to alumni of the Faculty Success Program
  • Private discussion forum for peer-mentoring and problem solving

Activate Your UMN Individual Membership

  1. Visit ncfdd.org/join
  2. Select your UMN campus name from the dropdown list of institutions
  3. Select “Activate My Membership”
  4. Fill in your account information
  5. You will receive a welcome email within 24 business hours confirming that your account is active and that you can access NCFDD resources


About the NCFDD1

Founded in 2010, the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community for faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students. They are 100% dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers. Over the past ten years, they have:

  • Partnered with 230+ colleges and universities as institutional members
  • Mentored 6,000+ faculty members in their Faculty Success and Post-Tenure Pathfinders Programs where their empirically-grounded methods improve productivity with the support of intense accountability, coaching, and peer support,
  • Facilitated more than 350 workshops both on-campus and virtually
  • Hosted 50,000+ academic writers in our 14-Day Challenges; and
  • Supported over 175,000 academics online through their Core Curriculum and their monthly guest-expert webinars and multi-week courses.

1 Information is adapted from https://www.facultydiversity.org