CRA-W Promotion & Tenure

1. CRA-W Promotion & Tenure Dilma Da Silva, Chair Texas A&M Kathryn S McKinley, Microsoft Research

2. The next hour of your life A bit about me 15 minutes on tenure A bit about Dilma 15 minutes on promotion in research labs 15 minutes partner exercise 10 Q&A

3. Endowed Professor, UT Austin Tenured at UMass ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow 18 PhD students Testified to Congress Energy Better systems Programmable, correct, fast, secure, energy efficient Kathryn McKinleyPrincipal Researcher, Microsoft Uncertain<T> programming with estimates Immix Garbage Collection DaCapo Benchmarks Cross system boundaries Software for Heterogeneous Hardware +

4. The Academic “Ladder” Postdoc 1-2 years Assistant Professor ~6 years Associate Professor Professor Chaired Professor Department Head Associate Dean Dean . . . tenure

5. Tenure Criteria Research Teaching Service Quality and quantity is institution specific Read tenure CV of successful faculty Learn the influential faculty (chair, etc.) Ask them for feedback every year

6. Tenure Process • Yearly department evaluations • Mid-tenure review • CV • Research, teaching, & service statements • Teaching evaluations • External letters • Tenure packet • CV • Research, teaching, & service statements • Teaching evaluations • External letters (typically 8-12)

7. Research

8. Move the needle Work on important problem(s) create or borrow a theme: self managing home, private web, accurate search, energy efficiency, programmable, etc. Enough funding & students to do it industry funding demonstrates near term important test out students before committing Collaborate when the solution requires technical skills you want write at least one paper before applying for joint funding Publish in top venues – qualityover quantity Be “a goto person” in your theme – research leadership publish, PCs, organize a workshop, tutorial, attend, questions, give talks

9. Research RelationshipsResearch is a social process Students build your own group culture training great students vs doing great work Collaborators multiply your research, learn new skills Community develop relationships and improve your community

10. Teaching

11. Teaching – hard work & rewarding • Enjoy it – immediate feedback • Teaching plan – what, when, how NEGOTIONATION • Match your expertise & needs to the department’s needs • Before tenure • Limit number of different courses, so you can teach well • No one cares how many times you taught course X, just that you did it well when you did teach it • Take available teaching release, e.g., maternity leave, new faculty, mini-sabbatical

12. Teaching – hard work & rewarding • Execution for good student evaluations • Prepared for every class: topic, learn, extra, how it fits in • On time, end on time; course structure; stay on schedule • Quizzes, structuring of assignments, tests, drop deadline • Peer tutoring matching to help top & bottom of class • Teaching gives back • Technical material you want at your finger tips • Attracting, evaluating, and training graduate students • Inspire the next generation • But in R1 institutions, teaching alone wont get you tenure

13. Service

14. Service • Department & University • What matters to you, important to department, strategic • Build relationships with your colleagues, harder to fire you if they like you • Understand department values • Discipline • Before tenure, only do research enhancing service • Say YESto • program committees of top venues, your area specific venue, • NSF grant reviewing, research visioning activities • Say NO to treasurer, local arrangements, poster chair, etc. • Quality and reliability are more important • than quantity

15. Dilma Da Silva Department Chair, Texas A&M

17. Partner Exercise Find a partnerWhat’s the weakest part of your tenure case?What should you about it?

18. Questions?

19. Next Steps

20. CRA-W wants to change the face of computing

21. Industry/government labs Graduate Students Undergraduates Academic careers What does CRA-W do?Individual & Group Research Mentoring Undergrads UndergraduateResearch Experiences Undergrads Distinguished lecture role models Grad Cohort group mentoring of graduate students Grad Students Discipline Specific Research workshops PhD Researchers group mentoring early & mid career @ CMW, CAPP, Grace Hopper & Tapia 600+ students & PhDs a year

22. Does it work? ✔ Yes! Compares program participants to non-participants

23. Thank you & thanks to our sponsors Private Foundation University Departments www.cra-w.orgwww.cdc.org