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Navigating Faculty Life After Leadership: Insights from Bruce Stiftel at Florida State University

In this engaging session at the ACSP Administrators Conference, Bruce Stiftel shares his transformative journey back to faculty life. He addresses the loneliness often felt by former chairs, the challenges of rekindling a productive research agenda, and the emotional toll of seeing past accomplishments dismantled. Stiftel emphasizes the importance of staying intellectually engaged and seeks to redefine success in academia by nurturing valuable collaborations. His experiences reveal that while change can be daunting, it also offers opportunities for growth and renewed purpose.

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Navigating Faculty Life After Leadership: Insights from Bruce Stiftel at Florida State University

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  1. Returning to the Faculty Bruce Stiftel Department of Urban and Regional Planning Florida State University ACSP Administrators Conference March 07

  2. What they say… • As a former chair, you will: • Experience loneliness as few beat a path to your door; • Have difficulty re-engaging a productive research program; • Grieve as your hard fought accomplishments are dismantled; • Be the object of retribution as colleagues you previously pressed for change now review your performance.

  3. Loneliness • Attitude: • Why did I choose faculty work? • Did the parade to my door improve my productivity?; My daily work world? • Experience: • New work brings new contacts. • Conclusions: • If you engage a new agenda, your level of interaction will still exceed the level desirable for high productivity. • One genuinely engaged student or co-researcher is more rewarding than a long queue of petitioners.

  4. Re-engaging Research • Attitude: • My leading dissatisfaction about being a chair was that I didn’t have the time I would have liked for research. • Experience: • The questions I now see as important are different than the questions I left years ago. • Conclusions: • You still have the tools for learning and critical analysis that you always had. • Applying them still requires honest effort.

  5. Dismantling • Attitude: • Change only lasts if it affects the hearts and minds of the people. • Experience: • New leaders will have new pressures, but will still see the view from the bridge. • Conclusions: • You have a role to play reporting institutional memory, but reaching out from the grave is seldom a rewarding pass time.

  6. Retribution • Attitude: • I want to look back on my work and feel proud. • Experience: • For every one who criticizes a hard decision, there are three that thank you for it. • Today’s issues quickly replace yesterdays. • Conclusions: • Deal straight and there will be a welcome home for you later. • If not, move on.

  7. What advice would I give? • Stay engaged with the intellectual life of our profession, so you have new challenges to move on to. • New research will require the vigor and concentration it always did, but you have better perspective and can take risks. • Deal straight; don’t second guess later implications, but don’t turn off to governance either (they need your memory and perspective).

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