
Exploring Passion at Work and Burnout in Higher Education
I fell down a rabbit hole recently. Despite trying to convince myself that I had collected enough literature to be able to start writing my new book on women’s leadership

I fell down a rabbit hole recently. Despite trying to convince myself that I had collected enough literature to be able to start writing my new book on women’s leadership

I’ve written quite a bit about burnout in these pages—here, here, and here, for example. It’s important for

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities were ramping up their services to address the mental health crisis among students as depression, anxiety, loneliness, suicide, and other issues were

Content warning: This article contains mentions of bereavement experiences, including loss of a parent.
When my mother passed away unexpectedly at the age of 67 this February, I could

Content warning: This article contains mentions of bereavement experiences, including loss of a parent and a child.
One morning in mid-February, I was working at home and about to

In the first part of this article, I discussed levels of intervention to help shift a system toward health. If we want to change trends

As I’ve written elsewhere in this newsletter, burnout is a serious problem in higher education—not only for faculty but also for students and staff. Defined by the World Health

Exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, and depression are commonplace topics in most workplaces in the United States. Higher education is no exception. In the Healthy Minds study from the 2021–22 academic

This article first appeared in The Best of the 2022 Leadership in Higher Education Conference (Magna Publications, 2023).
Today’s professionals use the term “burnout” to describe how a person

Over the past three years, I have given upwards of 30 workshops on burnout to different groups of faculty, whether through invitations to a campus (in-person and virtual), conferences,