Past "What's It Like..." Sessions
Sponsored by CRLT and Rackham, this new series spotlights faculty worklife at different kinds of colleges and universities to help you explore career possibilities.
What's It Like to Work at a Community College?
Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
About a third of full-time and two-thirds of part-time faculty teach at community colleges. What’s it like to teach at a two-year institution? This panel features full-time faculty and administrators who work or have worked at three community colleges. Panelists will discuss typical salaries, work portfolios and job search strategies.
Panelists:
Geri Jacobs – Link
to a recording of this talk (12.4 MB).
Professor, Department of Language, Literature and the Arts, Jackson
Community College
Roger Palay - Link
to a recording of this talk (18.3 MB).
Vice President for Instruction, Washtenaw
Community College
Andre Cavalcante
- Link to a recording of this talk (19.2 MB).
Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Studies, (Previously, a full-time instructor
at Suffolk
County Community College and adjunct at Nassau
Community College, New York
Navigate to resources on community colleges and job searches.
What's It Like to Work Where There's a Teaching-Research Balance?
Wednesday,
October 7, 2009, 2:30-3:40 p.m.
Michigan Room, Michigan League
This panel spotlights faculty worklife at master's institutions, where work expectations include a relatively even mix of teaching and research. Faculty will discuss faculty worklife at their institutions, strategies for getting hired at a master's institution, and tenure expectations.
Panelists:
Samhita Rhodes - Link
to a recording of this talk (12.4 MB).
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Grand
Valley State University
John Staudenmaier, s.j. - Link
to a recording of this talk (24.5 MB).
Professor of History, The University of Detroit
Mercy
Navigate to resources on master’s institutions and job searches
What's It Like To Work at a Liberal Arts College?
January 28, 2010, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Assembly Hall, Rackham
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal
arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. In addition,
participants will learn about the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oberlin
and Kalamazoo Colleges for University of Michigan Ph.D.s
(http://www.rackham.umich.edu/postdoctoral/exchange_program/).
Panelists:
Dr. Grace An - Link
to a recording of this talk (19.2 MB)
Assistant Professor of French/Cinema Studies, Oberlin College
Dr. Clayton
Koppes - Link to a recording of this talk (14.5 MB)
Professor, Department of History, Oberlin College
Dr. Andrew Mozina
- Link to a recording of this talk (14.8 MB)
Associate Professor, Department of English, Kalamazoo
College
Dr. Amy Rodgers
- Link to a recording of this talk (17.5 MB)
Mellon postdoctoral fellow
Moderated by Dr. Peggy McCracken, Associate Dean, Rackham Graduate School & Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Navigate to resources on liberal arts colleges and job searches
What's It Like To Work at a Postsecondary Minority Institution?
February 12, 2010, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Assembly Hall, Rackham
What’s it like to work at a college or university with a high proportion of underrepresented students? Panelists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other diverse contexts will discuss their worklife and hiring advice, from different disciplinary and institutional perspectives.
Panelists:
Dr. Bryant Marks - Link to a recording of this talk (40.38 MB)
Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology, Morehouse College
Dr.
Phyllis Worthy Dawkins - Link to a recording of this talk (61.21 MB)
Associate
Provost Academic Affairs, Associate Vice President for Academic Committee,
and Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Academic Technology,
Dillard University, President, HBCU Faculty Development Network, President-Elect-Elect,
Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network
Dr.
Jim Silliman, Ph.D. - Link to a recording of this talk (81.39 MB)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas
A&M University-Corpus Christi
Moderated by: Dr. Robert Sellers, Professor of Psychology, Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Navigate to resources on postsecondary minority institutions and job searches
What's It Like to Be a Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Member?
Thursday, September 16, 2010, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons
A majority of postsecondary instructors are part-time (Wilson, 2010), and about a quarter of tenured or tenure-track faculty transitioned to their current positions from a part-time position (Schuster, 2006). This session will focus on the diversity of non-tenure track instructional careers at different institutional contexts, such as full-time lecturer and online instructor positions. Panelists represent a mix of those who hire lecturers, as well as U-M PhDs who had or currently hold such positions.
Panelists:
Catherine Misener
Formerly Social Science Chair, Kaplan University
Dr. Lori Kumler– Link to a recording of this talk (11 MB).
Part time faculty, Geography Department and Geological and Environmental Sciences
Department, Youngstown State University
Dr. Linda Wiechowski– Link to a recording of this talk (305 MB).
Chair, Finance and Economics, Walsh College
Dr. Victor Okafor– Link to a recording of this talk (26 MB).
Department Head, Department of African American Studies, Eastern Michigan University
Moderated by Dr. Mary Wright, Assistant Research Scientist, CRLT, University of Michigan
Navigate to resources on non-tenure-track faculty positions.
What's It Like to Be a Postdoctoral Researcher?
Wednesday, October 6 2010, 1:10 - 2:20 p.m.
Michigan League, 2nd Floor
Thinking about a postdoc after graduation? This panel will offer strategies for getting a postdoctoral position, as well as for working productively at one.
Panelists:
Dr. Shanna Daly– Link
to a recording of this talk (15 MB).
Research Fellow, Design Science Program,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Research Fellow, College of Engineering,
University of Michigan
Instructional Consultant, CRLT in Engineering, University of Michigan
Dr. Ferman Chavez– Link
to a recording of this talk (10 MB).
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Oakland
University
Formerly a postdoc at the University
of Minnesota
Dr. Peter Hitchcock– Link
to a recording of this talk (6 MB).
Director, Office of Postdoctoral
Studies,
University of Michigan Medical School
Professor of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciencesand Professor of Cell
and Developmental Biology, Medical School
Formerly a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University
of Michigan
Navigate to resources on postdoctoral positions.
Session was part of the Preparing Future Faculty Conference.
What’s It Like to Work at a Liberal Arts College?
Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Rackham, Assembly Hall
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. In addition, participants will learn about the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oberlin and Kalamazoo Colleges for University of Michigan Ph.D.s (http://www.rackham.umich.edu/postdoctoral/opportunities/exchange_program/).
Dr. Clayton Koppes
Professor, Link
to a recording of his talk on January 28, 2010(14.5 MB)
Department of History, Oberlin College
Dr. Manish Mehta, Link
to a recording of his talk on October 6, 2010 (60 MB)
Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College
Dr. Andy Mozina, Link
to a recording of her talk on January 28, 2010 (14.8 MB)
Department of English, Kalamazoo College
Dr. Afia Ofori-Mensa
OK-UM Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative American Studies and
African American Studies, Oberlin College