Next Deadline: August 10, 2015
Are you motivated to make a difference in your graduate program or peer group? Apply for a small grant to receive up to $500 and support in planning and running activities to foster learning community among graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, research associates, and other early-career academics at Cornell University. Our next deadline for general proposals is Monday, August 10, at 5:00 pm ET.
Request for Proposals (PDF)
Week 5’s session included a discussion of diversity in the classroom and diversity statements. View our recommended resources on the Diversity Statement page.
The session handout is available here: PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week5-revised (PDF)
Thanks, Cassie, for writing up a summary of this week’s session on the value of research postdocs! Feel free to share this resource with friends and colleagues who might also be interested in postdoc opportunities.
Week 4 Summary (PDF)
This week’s session is a chance for you to ask questions of someone who’s served on hiring committees and two people who’ve recently been through the hiring process. It’ll be a panel discussion on the topic “Why Hiring Committees at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Prefer Candidates with Postdoc Experience” with guests Luke Keller, Moria Chambers, and Carl Ferkinhoff. Luke is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ithaca College and has served on several hiring committees; Moria is finishing up a postdoc at Cornell, and is about to start to a job as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA; and Carl got his PhD at Cornell, is currently a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and will be moving to Minnesota in January to start a tenure-track job at Winona State University.
PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week4 (PDF)
Update: See also our Week 4 Summary if you missed the session!
Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, has co-authored a commentary piece in Nature outlining the urgent need to improve the quality of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in research universities. The piece is part of a package of articles in Nature, in collaboration with Scientific American, exploring the challenges facing STEM education. Read the article here.
Where do you want to work? A large research-focused institution? A private liberal arts school? How about a large (or small!) public institution, or a community or tribal college? How can you show a hiring committee that your teaching style will be an amazing asset for their department (even if you don’t have much teaching experience)?
In this week’s session, everyone will get an overview to both of these subjects before we split into two groups so that you can explore one of the topics in-depth. We’ll post all of the resources on the website early next week.
Today’s session includes presentations about resources, classes, and programs about teaching at Cornell and through the CIRTL Network, and how to get funding to do some of these programs.
Welcome to Summer PROFessional Development! The goal of this program is to foster a community of grad students, postdocs, research associates, visiting scholars, etc., across all fields, who are interested in teaching in higher education. The handout for this session is available below or on the right navigation bar. Contact information regarding the series is listed below. Welcome to Summer PROF 2015!
Contact Information
If you have any questions, please contact Shoshe:
Shoshanna Cole
Teaching Postdoc, Summer 2015
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CU-CIRTL)
Cornell University Graduate School
shoshe@astro.cornell.edu
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