Rise with Clarity Podcast

Professors: What lights you up in your job?

If you need to think about your response to this question, I invite you to linger a bit here. Because I think it’s important for you to have some clarity on this as you move forward in your academic career—whether you’re just starting out as a new professor or you’re well beyond tenure. 

In this 43rd episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I reflect on how being more  strategic and intentional about how you approach your faculty duties can be beneficial for you. 

You can find the full written transcript at RisewithClarity.com/43, along with all of my other podcast episodes and other resources for women of color faculty in higher education.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

Conceptualizing and developing a course syllabus may be daunting if this is a first-time experience for you. You might feel compelled to devote the entire summer to crafting your syllabi.

In this 42nd episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, which is a re-release of Episode 24, I share 6 tips on course and syllabus prep for those of you who are new to teaching. But I also bring into this discussion some newer concerns about how certain AI tools have already been integrated into aspects of teaching and learning on college campuses, often with limited oversight.

Find the full transcript for this episode at RisewithClarity.com/42 along with all of my other podcast episodes and other resources for women of color faculty.  

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

Are you a new professor who is beginning your first year on the tenure track this fall? If so, then this episode is just for you! 

In this 41st episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I reflect on the different components of the onboarding process for new faculty, and offer you 5 tips on how to manage some of the overwhelm that may come with this big transition. 

Find the full written transcript for this episode at RisewithClarity.com/41, along with all of my other podcast episodes and other resources for women of color faculty in higher education.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

In this 40th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I talk about identifying systems of support for you in and beyond higher ed as you move forward in the coming months. I demonstrate how you can use the GROW model to help you identify and articulate what systems of support you need to reach your goals by the end of the summer. You can find the full written transcript for this episode at RisewithClarity.com/40, as well as all of my other podcast episodes and resources for women of color faculty in higher education.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

How do you mentor PhD students on a career pathway that’s very different from your own? What advice would you give to your students who are looking to leave higher ed, especially if you have never worked outside of academia? For many faculty, this situation can seem pretty daunting. 

In this 39th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I introduce you to a simple coaching tool called the GROW model that you can employ to help with mentoring your PhD students who are exploring non-academic careers. Find the full written transcript for this episode at RisewithClarity.com/39 along with Episode 38 and other helpful resources for women of color faculty in higher ed.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

How do you help PhD students who want to pursue a non-academic career after graduation? Some programs or departments have the expectation that their graduates will choose careers in diverse fields like industry, healthcare, government, the non-profit sector, or primary education. 

But there are lots of graduate programs out there that offer specific training for graduate students on how to enter the academy as a professor. 

This kind of training is not so ideal, however, for the many graduate students who are not intending to become professors. And the reality of these times is that more and more PhD graduates are opting for careers outside of academia. 

In this 38th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I want to focus on how you can best support PhD students in their non-academic career explorations. You can find the full written transcript at RisewithClarity.com/38, along with all of my other podcast episodes and other resources for women of color faculty in higher ed.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

If someone were to ask you today about your core values, would you be able to articulate them out loud? Have you ever spent the time to think about your values, especially as they relate to your professional work?

When I asked these questions to a former client of mine in our very first session, she was stumped. She was at a crossroads in her life, where she had essentially come to the decision to leave her job. But she was full of fear and unsure of what to do next. 

The only thing that she was sure about was that she could not stay where she was. It was no longer tenable for her.

In our next few sessions, we decided that she would work on identifying what her core values were. Because by gaining clarity on her core values, she would then be able to make intentional decisions about what her next steps would be. 

In this encore broadcast of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I’m going to be discussing 4 tips on how to uncover and clarify your core values as they relate to your professional work goals.

You can find the full transcript for this episode, along with other useful resources for women of color faculty at RisewithClarity.com/37 or RisewithClarity.com/19.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

How do you want to show up as a scholar right now? For those of you who are based in the United States, this is a question that you are already facing now or will in the near future.

No matter which way you turn, you are likely to be impacted by this administration’s repressive actions. At the very least, you will be affected by the recent austerity measures that many university administrators are now implementing in response to attacks from the government and pressure from their boards. 

In this 36th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I want to center today’s discussion on the question of: How do you want to show up as a scholar in this current political moment in the United States?

This can be a complicated question, especially if you are a junior faculty woman of color on the tenure track. To be honest, just surviving the tenure track is hard enough. So rather than telling you what to do—which isn’t my approach or practice as a coach—I’d like to offer you 4 prompts for you to reflect on as you go about learning how to navigate this new reality. 

You can find the full transcript at RisewithClarity.com/36, along with all of my other podcast episodes and other resources for women of color faculty.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

Are you new to caring for an aging parent or parents? If so, I want you to let you know that I’m thinking of you and your loved one on this challenging journey.

I started my own caregiving journey in quite an unexpected way, after my father had a serious and debilitating stroke over 2 years ago. For part of this time, I was a tenured faculty member, struggling to manage my professional duties with my new role as a caregiver and as a patient advocate. I felt like I was completely unprepared for many of the challenges that I experienced during most of 2023.

In this 35th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I share 10 tips as well as several resources that I have found helpful during my caregiving journey. This is Part 3 of a short series on Faculty Caregiving that I’m releasing. 

You can find the full written transcript for this episode at RisewithClarity.com/35, along with other helpful resources for women of color faculty in higher education.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.

How many of you are currently providing some form of care for your aging parents while also serving in your faculty position? And how many of you are also raising your own children at the same time? How are you holding up right now?

In this 34th episode of the Rise with Clarity Podcast, I share a little bit about my journey as a patient advocate and caregiver for my father. This is Part 2 of a short series that I’m putting out on faculty caregiving. 

You can find the full written transcript for this episode and links to all of my other podcast episodes at RisewithClarity.com/34 along with other useful resources for women of color faculty in higher education.

Dr. Katherine Lee is a Higher Ed Coach and Career Strategist and a former tenured professor at an R1 university. She helps women of color faculty to manage the tenure track, navigate politics, and take the next steps to advance their careers. To find more resources or to work with Katherine, check out her website at: Rise with Clarity.