ABSTRACT
This chapter provides suggestions and strategies for how to think about and nurture positive professional relationships. The professional relationships extend beyond the faculty colleagues and students to include campus administrators and staff as well as colleagues at other institutions. Collegiality might be thought of as a sense of professional trust and respect that translates into supportive behaviors that facilitate pursuit of shared goals within a department, a school or college, or a university. While often applied only to faculty, one can apply the collegiality concept even more broadly to guide the interactions with staff and administrators on a campus. Relationships with faculty colleagues can be a source of anxiety and frustration for early career faculty members. Faculty members who teach multiple classes, serve on committees, juggle family commitments, and try to squeeze out time for scholarship. However, students may latch on to a professor, or a faculty member may take advantage of being in an authority position.
