Category: Announcements

Summer PROFessional Development is back!

FFSummerProfSeriesOur first meeting of 2016 will be 3:30-4:30 pm on Friday, July 29 in 401 Physical Sciences Building. RSVPs appreciated, but feel free to come to this or any other discussion, whether or not you let us know ahead of time.

Do you love teaching and want that to be a part of your career? Would you like a low-pressure, low-commitment opportunity to pursue that interest over the summer?

Summer PROFessional Development is a community of grad students and postdocs who are interested in teaching in higher education. We’ll meet on Friday afternoons to talk about teaching and how to get a job at a college or university that emphasizes it. We’ll discuss topics such as:

  • Teaching professional development opportunities, from courses to certificates,
  • Communication and listening skills for teaching and mentoring,
  • Diversity in the classroom,
  • Talking to your supervisor about your interest in teaching.

Enhancing and Documenting Your Training in Teaching

Sponsored by the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CU-CIRTL).

Deadline to Apply to CTE Graduate Fellows Program Extended

Are you passionate about teaching? Would you like to become an effective teacher at the college or university level? The Center for Teaching Excellence offers two fellowship programs to all Cornell graduate students.

Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellows (GTAF) develop and implement programs and resources that foster teaching excellence at Cornell University.

Graduate Research and Teaching Fellows (GRTF) develop and implement programs and resources that foster teaching excellence at Cornell University. In addition, they learn to use research strategies to understand, inform and enhance their teaching.

CTE Fellows play a key role in providing leadership and mentoring at Cornell through our GET SET programming, leading workshops at our University-Wide Teaching Conference and presenting research at our Teaching as Research Symposium.

The deadline for 2016-2017 CTE Graduate Fellows Program applications has been extended to April 29th, 2016.

Learn more here.

Cornell Prof publishes article on evidence-based STEM education in the journal Nature

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.

June 19, 2015 – Summer PROFessional Development

Schedule and Introduction

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

PROFessionalDevelopment_Handout_Week1-revised (PDF)

Future Faculty Forum

Welcome to the CU-CIRTL Future Faculty Forum – a place where graduate students and postdocs who are pursuing a career in higher education can gather to find information, ask questions, and share experiences! If you don’t find what you are looking for on this site, contact us and we will work on it!  Happy job hunting!