This episode's full transcript can be found at RisewithClarity.com/4, along with other useful resources for WOC faculty.

Have you ever stopped to consider how many different hats you typically have to wear as a professor? Or in other words, how many different roles are you expected to perform in your job as a professor on the tenure track? 

As WOC faculty, you not only serve as professors in the classroom, but you also have to take on a wide range of activities as researchers, scientists, advisors, and administrators—just to name a few. 

But have you ever realized that some hats may be rather ill-fitting, while others are tailor made for you? As you move forward on the tenure track, how can you better assess which hats or professorial roles you want to invest further in and prioritize? This may be especially important if you are having difficulty balancing several roles on a daily basis.

This episode provides some insights for WOC faculty as they navigate the multifaceted roles they have to take on as professors in today’s higher ed environment. 

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.

For many of you, you’ve likely made it through your first week or two of classes and you’re slowly starting to get back into the rhythm of teaching, research, and writing. But if this is your very first time on the tenure track, all of these new experiences can feel quite overwhelming and sometimes disconcerting. And because you have 6 years to achieve tenure at your institution, the stakes feel high to you.

In this third episode of the podcast, host Dr. Katherine Lee offers some guidance on how to better manage your first semester as a WOC faculty on the tenure track. Find the full transcript at RisewithClarity.com/3.

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.

This second episode addresses how many WOC faculty members often feel behind in their work. Host Dr. Katherine Lee shares some of her own challenges on the tenure track and offers some strategies on how to stay ahead with your writing.

When you’re in a field that requires the publication of a book in order to get tenure, making time for the book should really be your first priority. But there are so many other things that compete for your time, energy, and attention during the school year. And let’s be honest … if you’re a woman of color faculty on the tenure track, there are additional hurdles:

• You have a higher teaching load
• You have a higher service load
• You often meet with more students in office hours and you feel drained afterwards
• You constantly have to process microaggressions or racialized aggressions
• You are not held up as an authority in your department or sometimes in the classroom
• You don’t really have allies in your department

It can feel like success on the tenure track for you is more like surviving an obstacle course. Is it any wonder that you are finding it difficult to have the time, energy, and inspiration to work on your book during the school year?

Find the full transcript for this episode and other resources for WOC faculty at www.risewithclarity.com/2.

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.

This first episode introduces host Dr. Katherine Lee as she explains what she learned on the tenure track as a woman of color faculty. She also discusses why she decided to let go of a tenured faculty position and launch Rise with Clarity to help other WOC 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.

Rise with Clarity Podcast, hosted by Dr. Katherine Lee, offers strategies and guidance to women of color faculty in higher ed. 

It’s a huge accomplishment to land a tenure track position in today’s job market. But let’s admit it. As a woman of color faculty in higher ed, there are other hurdles that you have to face on the tenure track.

Rise with Clarity Podcast offers strategies and guidance to women faculty of color in academia.

Episodes will cover how to: 

·      manage the tenure track with more ease

·      navigate workplace politics, and 

·      advance your career—whether that involves ramping up in higher ed, or pivoting out of your position.

This podcast will also offer practical tips on reclaiming time and setting priorities, rekindling the passion for your research, and how to safely exit a toxic work environment. 

Rise with Clarity is hosted by Dr. Katherine Lee, Higher Ed Coach & Career Strategist, and a former tenured professor at an R1 university.

Join us and listen to shows at RisewithClarity.com/1. 

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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.