Forward to Professorship Workshop

 

 

Day

Time Band

Topic

Tuesday, May  20

 

 

 

2pm to 4pm

Registration

 

4 pm to 6pm

Overview and Welcome: Asking the Tough Questions. How to  advance to tenure and promotion by addressing the three legs of teaching, research and service while standing on the 4th leg of home life

 

6:30 to 7:30

Dinner

 

7:30 to 8:30

Keynoter – Dr. Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

 

Late evening

Touring DC

Wednesday,
May 21

 

 

 

8:15

Continental Breakfast

 

9am to 10:30

Getting The Job

Guest Presenter: Rachel Brem
Writing personal statements, teaching philosophy, research plan and skills descriptions for job interviews or promotion.

 

 

10:30 to 11

Break

 

11 to 12:30

Planning and Funding Research

Guest Presenter: Lynnette Madsen

Funding opportunities, planning your approach, writing proposals, publishing,
collaborative research, and branching out to new areas of study.
 

 

12:45 to 1:30

Lunch – “The Dark Lady of DNA”  (table discussions)

 

1:45 to 3:00

Getting the Most Out of Teaching:  New teaching methods, developing new courses, team-teaching,  considering class preparation

 

3:00 to 3:15

Break

 

3:15 to 4:30

Negotiation: Getting What You Want and When To Say No!
Guest Presenter: Julie Barnes
Start-up packages, leave requests, department support for unfunded research

 

4:30 to 5:30

 

7pm

Dinner:   Speaker: Amy Millman   President of Springboard Enterprises

Introduction by Grae Baxter

Thursday, May 22

 

 

 

8:15

Breakfast

 

9am to 10:30

Service Without Over-commitment

Guest Presenter: William Marshall

Community Service, departmental, college and university service.

 

10:30 to 11

Break

 

11 to 12:30

Having it all!

Guest Presenter: Marc Sher

Creating strategies for family/career balance. Job sharing, time management

 

12:45 to 1:30

Lunch – no speaker

 

1:45 to 3:00

A Personalized Plan