In the first installment of this series, I argued that academic leaders should treat faculty development not as scattered programming but as infrastructure. Structured onboarding and mentoring create the first layer of that infrastructure by helping new faculty enter the institution, build confidence, and develop relationships that support retention.

Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that


