PFF

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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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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Postdoctoral Short-Course on College Teaching in Science and Engineering

ANNOUNCEMENT: APPLICATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION ARE DUE BY 9 AM ON AUGUST 13, 2013.

The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and Rackham Graduate School seek applicants for the Postdoctoral Short-Course on College Teaching in Science and Engineering. The purpose of this short-course is to prepare a select group of thirty-two advanced Postdoctoral Scholars from a variety of disciplines in the Sciences and Engineering to teach effectively as future faculty members. The short-course consists of eight 3-hour seminars. Each of the eight seminars will follow a similar format, emphasizing advanced preparation so that time in sessions may be devoted to active learning and reflection. Each session will include:

  1. a video podcast introducing session topics,
  2. short readings to support the podcast,
  3. preparatory assignments that will be used during that day’s session, and
  4. “hands on” activities during the session that synthesize and apply the material introduced in the podcasts, readings, and assignments.

Participants will be expected to attend all eight sessions in their entirety, watch the pre-recorded lectures/video clips, and complete the preparatory readings and assignments before each session. 

All sessions are integrated and build upon one another, leading participants to four capstone experiences: Read more »

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