Interacting with undergraduate and graduate students

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Interacting with undergraduate and graduate
students advice to new faculty

• Larry Davis
• Computer Science Department
• University of Maryland

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Interacting with undergraduates

• Success in the classroom is a combination of
• Intense preparation
• Of both class preparations and student
  expectations
• Respect for the students
• Never belittle a student in public or in private
• Maintaining lively interactions
• The best classes are participatory

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Interacting with undergraduates

• Undergraduate research
• Institutional priority at Maryland
• Incentivize young faculty to take on
  undergraduates
• Department offers funds to pay students to do
  research over the summer
• Department sends students to conferences if they
  get papers accepted

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Interacting with graduates as advisors

• In the US, faculty have to support graduate
  students with their grant funds or startup
  funding.
• Cut losses early if a student isnt working
  out, its in the students and the faculty
  members best interest to find another area.
• Mentor the students
• On writing papers, making presentations, helping
  with proposal preparation.
• Help them get jobs
• Determine their career goals early and then
  ensure that their research agenda is consistent
  with their career goals.