CRA-WP Leaderships

CRA-W Best Practices: Guidelines in Running an Inclusive Conference

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Created by our CRA-W Board in 2018, here are some tips and and suggestions to ensure that conferences are safe, unbiased, and comfortable for each participant.

Entrepreneurial Opportunities & Skills

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This session will discuss some of the benefits, and drawbacks of pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities. It will describe what skills are critical for such ventures and how to identify entrepreneurial opportunities.

Balancing Graduate School and Personal Life

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Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session addressed strategies for maintaining balance and a positive perspective during graduate school and your career. Topics included achieving personal satisfaction in your career and life, balancing your duties, decision-making strategies, and more.

Academia vs Industry: Choose Your Own Adventure

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This deck focuses on the difference in research positions and opportunities in industry and academia. It describes the expectations and challenges in both and considerations in choosing between the two, including opportunities for moving from one to the other.

Promotion and Tenure

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Understanding the process of promotion and tenure proves difficult and stressful. This session attempts to take some mystery out of the process and provides practical advice for developing a successful promotion and tenure portfolio.

Life Balance in an Academic Research Environment

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Academia is a demanding profession, learn from Lisa Landgraf how to balance life and working in the academic environment. This resource is targeted to new instructors.

Classroom Strategies

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This session discusses practical tips for effective computer science teaching and reviews the current pedagogy theories and strategies. Best practices for conducting education research are given.