CRA Career Mentoring Workshops 

Building on the success of more than two decades of workshops for starting a tenure-track position in academia, this year’s program is expanded to include a workshop on teaching.

CMW: Teaching will be held February 20-21, offering participants the opportunity to hear from seasoned computing educators about the nuts and bolts of teaching large upper-division classes and graduate student seminars. Designed for research-focused tenured/tenure-track faculty, the goal of this highly-interactive and engaging workshop is to help you reduce the amount of time you spend on teaching (for research gain) while also doing a good job and making it more fun–for you and your students. Specifically, attendees will gain insight into how to write and edit course syllabi, be introduced to high-quality materials and master teacher models, go through a bootcamp on evidence-based practices such as active learning, and gain guidance on how to manage TAs and other administrative tasks. 

CMW: Research will be held February 22-23, providing advice and mentoring activities for those starting academic computing research careers. Session topics will include planning your research career, networking strategies, mentoring and managing students, preparing a tenure dossier, time management and work-life balance, among others. Attendees will also get the chance to meet in small groups with program managers/directors from federal agencies that fund computing research, such as NSF. This session has consistently been a highlight of the workshop experience for past participants.