CMD-IT 2022 Academic Careers Workshop: Applications Due April 4

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The Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Computing and Information Technology (CMD-IT) 2022 Academic Careers Workshop will be held in person, June 9-12 in Chicago, IL.  The annual workshop provides mentoring for assistant and associate level faculty, senior doctoral students, and postdocs about academic careers in computing.  The workshop targets participants from the following communities: African Americans/Blacks, Native Americans/Indigenous, Hispanics/Latinx, and People with Disabilities.

The workshops include panels of diverse senior faculty discussing the following topics:

  • Tenure and promotion process
  • Launching a research program
  • Effective teaching strategies
  • Promotion to full professor
  • Effective strategies for proposal writing
  • Affinity Research Group Model for effect research teams

The workshops also include a panel of representatives from different funding agencies and mock proposal review sessions, whereby participants have an opportunity to review actual proposals.  The mock review sessions provide significant insights into proposal writing.

Apply here by April 4.