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National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

Villanova University is an Institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). All Villanova faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students can take advantage of the online career development and mentoring resources. There is a wide variety of resources to support productivity, writing, teaching, and scholarship.

  • Weekly Monday Motivator
  • Monthly Core Curriculum Webinars
  • Monthly Guest Expert Webinars
  • Access to Multi-Week Courses
  • Private Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring, problem-solving and moderated writing challenges
  • Access to the Member Library, which includes past webinar materials, referrals and readings

 

Programs designed for PhD students. 

The following curriculum and online forum are just some of the programs tailored specifically to PhD students.

Dissertation Success Curriculum for Graduate Students

Dissertation Success Online Forum

 

Create your NCFDD account

To create your NCFDD account, please carefully read the instructions and user guidance statement below

  1. Go to the NCFDD website
  2. Choose ‘Villanova University’ from the drop-down menu.
  3. Select “Activate my Membership”
  4. Register using your Villanova email address but not your Villanova password. (Your NCFDD password must be different from the one associated with your Villanova email address).
  5. Check your Villanova email for a confirmation/welcome email and click “Activate Account” in the email

User Guidance Statement: NCFDD is a fully online platform that gathers some personal data. During account set-up you will be asked for your Full Name, Email, University, Title, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Discipline and Department. NCFDD may also harvest data from the online discussion boards, chat forums and other interactive features built into its web platform. When using NCFDD platforms, Villanova affiliates may not share any confidential or protected information, information related to research grants and proposals, or information pertaining to Villanova’s strategic plans. We also encourage users to exercise caution with regard to sharing their own personal information.
 
The Villanova Institute for Research and Scholarship will periodically solicit feedback about the usefulness of the NCFDD’s resources for Villanova’s faculty, post-doctoral scholars and graduate students. Your comments are important in helping us to determine the duration of our institutional membership.

If you have any questions about the membership, please feel free to contact Janice Bially Mattern, Director of Villanova Institute for Research and Scholarship and Associated Professor in Political Science. Any technical questions, may be directed to NCFDD via email.