174: How You Know It’s Time To Revise Your Academic Mission Statement

Academic Writing Amplified - Un podcast de Cathy Mazak, PhD - Les mardis

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Academic mission statements are powerful tools that guide your career. It helps you set boundaries around your time, clarify your pipeline map, and qualify opportunities. But careers in academia last decades. How do you know when it is time to change your academic mission statement?   You will change and evolve throughout your career. It is common for professors to make pivots or shift focus. When this happens, aspects of your mission will also change. Embrace that change! Change is good. It means you are growing and developing as an academic. However, it is crucial to leverage that change and use it to revise your mission statement so that you can stay focused and keep your work impactful.   Today I discuss key moments in your academic career that call for a revision of your mission statement. I also discuss ways to identify if your current work aligns with your intentions as a professor. Is it time to adjust your mission statement? Listen in to find out!   For full show notes visit scholarsvoice.org/podcast/174.   CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors with a disruptive perspective on their field to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Get on the waitlist here!  Cathy’s book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that’s going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here! Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar’s Voice Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL:  LinkedIn YouTube  

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