Workshop Schedule
Day 1 (Thursday): 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Greetings and introductions
- What are the characteristics of successful new faculty?
- What do I need to do develop those strategies?
- How do students learn? How do teachers teach? What goes wrong in the process?
- How do I plan a course? How do I get it off to a good start?
- How can I create tests that are both rigorous and fair?
Day 2 (Friday): 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- How can I be an effective lecturer?
- How can I get students actively involved in learning?
- Can I do it even if I have 150 of them in my class?
- How can I use technology to teach more effectively?
- What student-related problems am I likely to face (classroom management, emotional crises, cheating, etc.)? How should I deal with them?
- What do I need to know about advising students?
Day 3 (Monday): 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- What sources of research funds are available to me?
- How can I write a research proposal and get it funded?
- How can I (and why should I) establish cross-disciplinary collaborations?
- Bidisciplinary proposal generation exercise.
- What are characteristics of a successful proposal? (Mock NSF proposal review)
- What are NCSU and COE/PAMS procedures for submitting a proposal?
- What campus resources are available to help me establish my research program?
Day 4 (Tuesday): 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. followed by reception
- How do I establish a research team (faculty collaborators, graduate students, postdocs, technicians) and manage my research?
- How do I attract graduate students and work effectively with them?
- How do I deal with the crises that inevitably arise in research (equipment failures, unproductive research assistants, loss of funding,...)?
- How do I decide where to publish and get my papers accepted?
- How can I manage my time and balance my professional and personal responsibilities?
- Panel: The deans and several department heads offer suggestions and answer questions on getting off to a good start and earning tenure and promotion.
- Celebratory reception