1 / 8

Departmental Support for Assistant Professors

This guide outlines essential support mechanisms for assistant professors at academic institutions, covering research, teaching, service, and personal life balance. Learn about financial planning, mentorship, tenure advice, grant opportunities, teaching strategies, and collaborative opportunities.

beverlyknight
Download Presentation

Departmental Support for Assistant Professors

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Departmental Support for Assistant Professors Kathryn S McKinley The University of Texas at Austin

  2. Outline • J Moore Remarks • Discussion points • General • Research • Teaching • Service • Family • What is the best thing your department has done to help you?

  3. GeneralBeyond your startup package • Department assigns you (and pick your own) department and UT mentors for • Research, Teaching, & Service • Administrative support • who will help you fill out paper work!? • Peter & Bill’s Excellent CS Adventure • explains how UT and CS work • Assistant professor financial planning • Spend ahead

  4. Research • Night time reading year 1 • recent successful tenure cases at your institution • recent successful Career grants in your area and from your institution • Every year • keep detailed records • review your progress with your department chair and some other senior faculty mentor • What are the research criteria? • Papers in top conferences, journals, funding, etc. • Meet and greet • Introductions to NSF/Darpa program managers • Introductions to industrial contacts • Collaborate • your colleagues have trained students

  5. Teaching • Appropriate course choices • undergraduate course you can teach repeatedly • graduate course you can use to screen and train students • seminars for advanced training • TA support and good TAs • Invest in being a decent teacher • “the right thing” • get it right quickly and both you and the students will find it more rewarding • Department & University seminars • Teaching software & remote question systems • Mentor evaluations

  6. Service • Department Service • not too hot, not too cold, but just right • teaches you how the department works • active member of department life • External Service • what to do?

  7. Family • Teaching release for babies • End department meetings no later than 5 and start no earlier than 9 • Miminize after 5 obligations • how many faculty candidates do you need to eat dinner with?

  8. What’s the best thing your department to help you?

More Related