Faculty Networking Across Disciplines: Exploring a Transdisciplinary Networking Approach

Department

Business

Department Name When Scholarship Produced

Business

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2024

Abstract

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.

Journal Title

The Journal of Faculty Development

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