Rebecca has written extensively about burnout in the higher ed media and has also been the subject of several articles related to burnout in academia.
“Exploring Passion at Work and Burnout in Higher Education” Academic Leader, May 2025 (PDF version)
“The Impossibility of Academic Leadership Roles” Academic Leader, February 2025 (PDF version)
“Having a Compassionate Conversation with a Burned-Out Colleague” Academic Leader, November 2024 (PDF version)
“Burnout is a Culture Problem” Academic Leader, March 2023 (PDF version)
“Addressing Burnout Takes More Than Faculty Development” Academic Leader, February 2022 (PDF version)
“Burnout Revisited: Six Cultural Factors to Consider” Academic Leader, October 2022 (PDF version)
You’re Burned Out. Now What? The Chronicle Review, 19 September 2022 (PDF version)
Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Author Charts Her Way Back from Burnout in New Book. Inside Higher Ed, 12 September 2022
Coming Back from Burnout: ‘Every Academic Has a Story to Tell.’ Times Higher Education, 20 September 2022
Burnout and Work-Work Balance, for the University of Venus blog at Inside Higher Ed, March 2023
Burnout is a Cultural Problem, Academic Leader, March 2023 (PDF version)
What I’ve Learned from 15 Burnout Workshops, Academic Leader, September 2023 (PDF version)
Rebecca spoke with Dr. Melissa Morriss-Olson on the IngenioUs podcast about burnout and higher ed faculty and leaders.
Rebecca talked with Dana Malone on the podcast The Academic Life on the New Books Network about Unraveling Faculty Burnout and her own burnout experiences.
Rebecca spoke about burnout on other podcasts, including Teaching in Higher Ed, Tea for Teaching and Overcoming Working Mom Burnout. She also spoke about burnout on the Chronicle of Higher Education online forum, “Trends in College Students’ Mental Health.”
In August 2020, she was invited by Bryan Alexander to guest on the Future Trends Forum. They talked about well-being, burnout, mental health, compassion fatigue, and boundaries for higher ed folks going into a fall semester colored by COVID-19.
In April 2020, Rebecca joined hosts Dr. Mary Churchill, Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette, and Meg Palladino on the View from Venus podcast to talk about productivity and burnout culture in higher education.