registration for Spring and a new resource

 Spring 2022: Registration for Doctoral Students

A new University initiative will provide doctoral students who are receiving a full tuition scholarship with a fee scholarship. However, they must be registered for Spring 2022 to receive this benefit. 

Please be sure to register your doctoral students for Spring 2022 as soon as possible and prior to the 1st day of classes.

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We are pleased to announce that Binghamton University has joined the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) as an Institutional Member. The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.

They provide a variety of virtual programs and resources including:

• Weekly Monday Motivator
• Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
• Monthly Guest Expert Webinars
• Access to Multi-Week Courses
• Access to Dissertation Success Curriculum for graduate students
• Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving, & moderated writing challenges
• Monthly accountability buddy matches
• Access to 14-Day Writing Challenges
• Access to the Member Library that includes past webinar materials, referrals, and readings

In order to gain access to these programs and resources, you should first sign up, using our Institutional Membership. After doing so, you will be added to the NCFDD listserv, which will dispatch weekly messages informing you about upcoming events. 

Please complete the following steps to sign up:

1)  Go to http://www.facultydiversity.org/join

2)  Choose Binghamton University from the drop-down menu and click "Continue".

3)  Select “Activate my Membership”

4)  Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (@binghamton.edu)

5)  Go to your institution email to find a confirmation/welcome email. Click “Activate Account” in the email.

6)  After registering, enter “My Dashboard” to get started with the NCFDD’s core curriculum and to take advantage of other programs and on-demand content in the NCFDD library

If you have any questions about the membership, I’ll be holding an open office hours session, via Zoom, on Tuesday, January 11, 1 - 2:30 pm, https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/9506909880. You can feel free to drop in at any time during that slot so that I can introduce you to some of the resources and opportunities that the membership provides. If you have any technical questions or problems establishing your registration, please email the NCFDD directly at Membership@FacultyDiversity.org.

I hope that you can make use of this valuable resource, which aims to provide support for academics at all stages of their careers. Many thanks to Provost Nieman and Vice President Karen Jones who have generously supported this membership. Please feel free to circulate this message to your graduate students as well.