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Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Materials Now Online

Materials from last week's 10th annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) conference are now going up on CTools and CRLT's PFF Conference webpage. We're excited to be able to share videos of panels, session handouts, presentation notes, and supplementary materials from the wide range of sessions featured at this year's conference. As materials are added to the sites over the coming week, participants can review what they learned at the conference, and anyone can find out about sessions they weren't able to attend. (For copyright reasons, some resources will only be available on a CTools site open to those who registered for the conference.) 

At the conference, co-sponsored by Rackham Graduate School, The Career Center, International Center, and CRLT, job seekers gained insight into faculty worklife and learned about what it takes to get an academic job at different types of institutions--and to be successful once there. Presenters included faculty and administrators from liberal arts colleges, community colleges, smaller regional universities, and major research institutions, including U-M. Read more »

Submitted by tbraun on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 12:03pm
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Getting Ready for an Academic Career: Conference Registration

October 10, 2012 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Michigan League Ballroom

 

Materials from the conference will be available soon. Please check back.

For full agenda see PFF main page

 

Click here for information about child care through U-M's Human Resources.

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Preparing Future Faculty: Getting Ready for an Academic Career

 

Preparing Future Faculty One-Day Conference

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Co-sponsored by Rackham Graduate School & CRLT
 

Thinking about pursuing a career in academe? This half-day conference is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars prepare for an academic job search and make a successful transition into a faculty position. The plenary and concurrent sessions will feature a range of faculty from U-M and other institutions sharing their insights about what it means to pursue an academic career and strategies for success in such a career path. Lunch will be provided. Enrollment is limited. Read more »

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Preparing Future Faculty

In collaboration with Rackham Graduate School, CRLT offers programs to help graduate students prepare for their first faculty jobs. Topics include preparing for the job market, learning about current issues in higher education, tenure and faculty worklife, and effective teaching for a diverse student body.

In addition to these programs, Rackham offers a postdoc for students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are interested in teaching at a liberal arts college. For more information: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/postdoctoral/opportunities/exchange_program/
 
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Rackham-CRLT May Seminar on Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) General Information

The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) seek applicants for the fourteenth annual Seminar on Preparing Future Faculty designed to help prepare senior graduate students for faculty positions. For this nationally-recognized Seminar, we are seeking advanced graduate students who have achieved candidacy and have college or university teaching experience. Participants who successfully complete the program will have fulfilled two requirements toward a U-M Rackham-CRLT Graduate Teacher Certificate. Read more »

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