For Researchers
Career Building
CRA’s Job Announcements is one of the best places to find positions available to computing researchers.
The Taulbee Survey provides salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE.
CRA Career Mentoring Workshop aids junior faculty as they choose or begin their careers.
CRA-WP Career Mentoring Workshops for women starting academic careers.
Departmental Oversight
CRA’s Best Practices Memos have information you (and your future department) should know.
The Taulbee Survey provides salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE.
View a set of slides on “Why choose a Ph.D. in CS?” Please feel free to share these.
The Graduate Student Information Guide is filled with advice on planning for graduate school. Although written for women, this is an excellent guide to anyone considering advanced study.
The Online Ethics Center is a repository of resources on the ethics of science, engineering, and research that help engineers, scientists, scholars, educators, students, and interested citizens understand and address ethically significant topics and problems that arise in the practice and results of science and engineering.
Getting Involved
The CRA Bulletin, Computing Research News, and CRA’s Policy Blog can keep you up to date on issues facing the CS & CE research communities.
Attend the Workshop for New Department Chairs at the next CRA Conference at Snowbird.
Visit CRA’s Government Affairs pages and join the Computing Research Advocacy Network.
Policy-related news also is posted on the CRA research policy blog.
Nominate faculty for the: A. Nico Habermann Award.
Nominate faculty for the: CRA Distinguished Service Award.
Nominate faculty for the: CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award.
Apply to host the CRA-WP Distinguished Lecture Series which sends faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school.
Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU).
Nominate undergraduates who show outstanding research potential for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.
Participate in the Computing Community Consortium: the CCC seeks to mobilize the computing research community to identify major research opportunities for the field.
Volunteer to serve on a CRA Committee by contacting CRA’s Executive Director (Andrew Bernat, abernat [at] cra.org).
Make sure that your department is a member of CRA.
Opportunities from the CRA Bulletin
Computing Research Advocacy Network
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