Promotion to the Next Technical Step to Full Professor
These session focused on strategies to attain the next level of advancement. The discussion provided advice regarding activities that help and hurt your chances of advancing.
CRA-WP Facultys
Resources for Faculty
Mid Career Mentoring Workshop FCRC 2015 Program
View the program from the Mid- CMW at FCRC 2015 workshop. Includes sessions, speakers, and information on the location of the 2015 workshop.
Leading Initiatives, Building New Programs, Negotiating Skills
This panel addressed how to help your organization make a change either due to your own interests or because your management asked you to lead a change. This panel presented strategies for building support and for successful negotiations.
Effective Leadership
This panel covered strategies for building and being recognized for your leadership skills. It also covered strategies for building a long-term leadership role in your organization such as building consensus and recognition of others.
Managing Down, Managing Up
This session discussed strategies for managing in an academic environment.
Writing an Abstract Exercise
Students learn how to summarize research and identify problems, contributions, evidence, and meaning of their own and other research.
Reading a Research Paper Exercise
Students learn how to focus and make reading active (without getting lost in details) and analyze and summarize other people's research.
Identifying a Related Literature Exercise
Students learn how to perform a thorough literature search using the proper resources and processes, and how to organize their discovered articles.
Code Reading Exercise
This exercise helps mentors teach their students how to read and analyze someone else’s code.
Elevator Talk Exercise
Students learn how to give a brief 2-5 minutes overview of their research interests and start a conversation about research.
