CRA-WP Mentoring

Upcoming Career Mentoring Workshops!

Upcoming early career mentoring workshops for the Education track at SIGCSE 2017 on March 8th 2017. When you attend the Early Career Mentoring Workshop, you will learn how to: be an effective and inspiring teacher, set yourself up for promotion and success, and balance work and life. You can find more information about this event […]

Identifying a Related Literature Exercise

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Students learn how to perform a thorough literature search using the proper resources and processes, and how to organize their discovered articles.

Explore Graduate Studies in CSE Workshop

October 8, 2016/External Event/CRA-WP/University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Students from all institutions are invited to apply to attend this one-day workshop. Participants will learn about the graduate school application process and the opportunities that exist for those who pursue graduate work in this impactful discipline. The workshop will include research highlights from faculty, one-on-one interactions with current graduate students, and a writing clinic with tips for writing a strong statement of purpose.

Negotiating Skills

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Negotiating your salary and startup package, committee assignments, teaching assignments and teaching load in academia; negotiations needed in collaborations and other on the job activities.

Networking Strategies

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Highlights several practical methods of making professional connections and using them wisely. Topics include ideas about whom we should network with, what we can do to network at conferences and when not to network at conferences, as well as what to do when our best networking efforts go wrong.

Register to Participate in the 1st Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall

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CRA-Women is proud to announce a NEW program, the Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall Series. During the Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall Event, you will join students from around the world in a virtual mentoring event where you will learn about cutting edge research in the field of computing, and how you can get involved with undergraduate research. […]

Undergraduate Town Hall Series

Computing Research Association Tackles Diversity in Tech

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Originally posted on Associations Now By: Rob Stott A recent Computing Research Association survey showed that, while more diverse than top tech companies, computer-science degree programs still struggle to court underrepresented students. CRA has a few programs aimed at combating that trend. The issue of diversity in the tech industry—rather, the lack thereof—is nothing new. […]

Tips for a Successful Mentoring Experience

Tips For a Successful Mentoring Experience The tips below are based on the findings of the Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination (LEAD) Center which was an evaluation conducted of the DREU program (formerly known as DMP) since 1994. Overall, the LEAD evaluators identified three key elements of the DREU program that were linked to a successful […]

Mentoring Tracks at Grace Hopper Celebration 2015

October 14-16, 2015/Conference, External Event/CRA-WP/George R. Brown Convention Center

CRA-W will provide mentoring tracks for students and researchers at Grace Hopper 2015. CRA-W will also host tables at the Student Opportunity Lab where students can learn about; Undergraduate Research Opportunities, What Happens in Graduate School, How to Apply To Graduate School, and The Differences Between a Masters and a Ph.D.