Program

See the Private Participant Workspacefor additional resources mentioned at the workshop.

Sunday

• 7:00pm-8:30pm Earth Educator Rendezvous opening reception

Monday

• 8:30am-8:35am Welcome, Introduction to Theme: Becoming a Successful Scholar
• 8:35am-9:50am Mapping your career at different types of institutions
  • Teaching Interests Word Cloud (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 176kB Jul18 16)
  • Mapping Your Career (Acrobat (PDF) 668kB Jul18 16)
  • Academic Career Profiles
  • Faculty Positions: exploring the range of possibilities
  • Faculty Careers at Two-Year Colleges
• 9:50am-10:05am COFFEE BREAK
• 10:05am-11:20am Long and short term career planning and time management
  • Early career inventory (Microsoft Word 46kB Jul16 16)
  • Early career strategic planning excel file (Excel 2007 (.xlsx) 24kB Jul16 16)
  • Early career strategic planning PDF (Acrobat (PDF) 40kB Jul16 16)
  • Time management tips handout (Acrobat (PDF) 84kB Jul16 16)
  • Time management talk given by Ankur to grad students a few years ago
  • Ankur's tenure dossier components and UW-Madison Physical Science tenure guidelines
• 11:20am-11:30am Summary of the Day and Roadcheck
• 11:30am-1:00pm Optional lunch time discussions
  • Finding and making the most of the post-doctoral positions
    • Slides on Obtaining a Post-doc (Acrobat (PDF) 671kB Jul6 16)
    • Finding and Writing Fellowship Proposals (Acrobat (PDF) 649kB Jul6 16)
    • CareerPrep Guide to Postdoc
  • Teaching Experiences for Graduate Students
    • Getting Teaching Experience
    • Mistaken Beliefs About Learning to Teach by Rick Reis from his Tomorrow's Professor Postings
• 1:00pm-4:15pm Choose among Earth Educator Rendezvous Mini-Workshops on designing effective assignments, service learning, flipping your class, or other sessions
• 4:30pm-5:30pm Rendezvous plenary session
• 8:30pm-9:30pm Optional pub night evening discussions
  • Financing academic careers
    • Devitt, Elizabeth (2016) Finances: Going for broke published by Nature
  • Others based on participant interest

Tuesday

• 8:30am-8:35am Introduction to Theme: Building your teaching and research portfolio
• 8:35am-9:50am Elements of teaching: course design, best practices in classroom teaching
  • Course design tutorial
  • Activities toolkit
  • Assessments for your courses
• 9:50am-10:05am COFFEE BREAK
• 10:05am-11:20am Moving your research forward in different settings
  • Example NSF CAREER proposal with reviews included (Acrobat (PDF) 2.9MB Jul18 16)
  • Sample Research statement for interdisciplinary department at major research university (Acrobat (PDF) 90kB Jul19 16)
  • Sample Tenure research statement (Acrobat (PDF) 106kB Jul19 16)
  • How to Create a 2YC research program (Microsoft Word 34kB Jul19 16) by Joshua Villalobos at El Paso Community College - great insights on initiating research at a 2YC, also food for thought when collaborating with 2YC's
• 11:20am-11:30am Summary of the Day and Roadcheck
• 11:30am-1:00pm Lunch discussion groups (optional) and view posters
• 1:00pm-4:15pm Choose among Earth Educator Rendezvous panel discussions on diversity, sustainability education, teaching videos, and other topics
• 4:30pm-5:30pm Earth Educator Rendezvous poster session
• 6:00pm-8:30pm Group dinner and academic cafe: teaching statement review in small groups led by Lynsey LeMay (Thomas Nelson Community College), Ankur Desai (UW-Madison), Lisa Gilbert (Williams College), Erika Marin-Spiotta (UW-Madison), Laura Peterson (Luther College), David Reed (UW-Madison), and Catherine Riihimaki (Princeton University).
  • Location: Steenbock's On Orchard, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, 330 N Orchard St., bar open at 5:30 pm
  • CareerPrep Guide to Teaching Statements
  • CareerPrep Guide to Research Statements

Wednesday

• 8:30am-8:35am Introduction to Theme: The job search
• 8:35am-9:50am Academic jobs search, interviews, and illegal questions
  • Academic Job Search slides (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 4.1MB Jul20 16)
  • Additional resources
    • Secrets of the 2YC interview (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 20kB Jul19 16)
    • Academic Job Interview Resources
• 9:50am-10:05am COFFEE BREAK
• 10:05am-10:50am The elevator pitch and negotiations
  • Elements of a Good Elevator Pitch (Acrobat (PDF) 479kB Jul6 16)
• 10:50am-11:20am Final thoughts on academic careers
• 11:20am-11:30am Summary of the Day and Written evaluations
• 11:30am-1:00pm Lunch discussion groups (optional)
• 1:00pm-4:15pm Choose among Earth Educator Rendezvous Mini-Workshops on lab activities, proposal writing, student motivation, team teaching, and other sessions
• 4:30pm-5:30pm Rendezvous plenary session
• 5:30pm Official end of Academic Career Preparation workshop