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Launching an Academic Career: Geoscience Resources for Graduates and Early Career Faculty

Access workshops and web-based resources tailored for geoscience graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early career faculty to enhance teaching, research, and career development.

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Launching an Academic Career: Geoscience Resources for Graduates and Early Career Faculty

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  1. Launching an Academic Career: On the Cutting Edge Resources for Geoscience Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Early Career Faculty Randy Richardson, University of Arizona Carol Ormand, SERC, Carleton College Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary Robyn Dunbar, CTL, Stanford University Richelle Allen-King, University at Buffalo Cathryn Manduca, SERC, Carleton College

  2. On the Cutting EdgeProfessional Development Program • For graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members (including early career faculty) • Complementary workshops and web resources • Focus on teaching, research, and career management • Tailored for each group’s needs

  3. Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences • Annual workshop for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, since 2003 • ~ 550 participants over the years

  4. Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences • Workshops mix presentations and activities. Participants • Ask questions of a panel on academic careers in a variety of institutional settings • Critique teaching and research statements • Practice presenting themselves to others • Design teaching activities, incorporating effective methods from research on learning • Role-play moving their research to a setting with limited resources • And much, much more….

  5. Preparing for an Academic Career: The Job Search

  6. Preparing for an Academic Career: Teaching

  7. Preparing for an Academic Career: Research

  8. Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career • Annual workshops for early career faculty members, since 1999 • >400 participants over the years

  9. Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career • Workshops offer presentations and activities including • Teaching strategies & course design • Developing a strategic plan for research • Discussing faculty expectations for student researchers • Critiquing research proposal ideas • Time & task management • Action planning during the workshop • Optional 1-day trip to NSF

  10. Early Career Faculty: Teaching

  11. Early Career Faculty: Research

  12. Early Career Faculty: Career Management

  13. Results • Workshop participants report • Overwhelming satisfaction (> 9/10) • Prepared to move forward, with specific teaching activities and research plans • Plans to use the website • These two sets of web pages receive more than 7,000 visitors each month • Google “geoscience career workshops” to find us • http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/index.html • http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer/index.html

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