FORWARD to graduate school and an academic career in STEM

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FORWARD to graduate school and an academic career
in STEM

• GWU Rachelle S Heller
• Cathy Mavriplis
• Gallaudet Charlene Sorensen
• David Snyder

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FORWARD To Professorship

• 2002-2005 - Spring 2-day workshop
• Getting the Most Out of Teaching 
• New teaching methods, developing new courses,
  team-teaching,  considering class preparation
• Planning and Funding Research
• Funding opportunities, planning your approach,
  writing proposals, publishing,collaborative
  research, and branching out to new areas of
  study.
• Service Without Over-commitment
• Community Service, departmental, college and
  university service.
• Negotiation Getting What You Want and When To
  Say No!
• Start-up packages, leave requests, department
  support for unfunded research
• Getting The Job
• Writing personal statements, teaching philosophy,
  research plan and skills descriptions for job
  interviews or promotion.
• Having it all!
• Creating strategies for family/career balance.
  Job sharing, time management
• A Personalized Plan
• Meet with Deans and Chairs to review your plan

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2003 Workshop

• Workshop Website
• Speakers
• Maria Klawe, Rachel Brem, Lynnette Masden, Julie
  Barnes, Amy Melman, William Marshall
• Discussions and activities
• Dark Lady of DNA
• Planning
• Debriefings

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More on Faculty Workshop

• Oversubscribed
• 45 attendees
• More than 65 applicants
• Follow-up support
• Informal emails
• Requests to review papers, grant proposals
• Discussions on resources and requests to
  re-present program at home institution
• Weekly conference call, initiated by attendees,
  supported by speakers and PIs
• Next Workshop May 19-21, 2004

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FORWARD to Graduate School

• 1998 2000
• Implementation project for the recruitment and
  retention of women in advanced science and
  engineering careers
• Five Elements
• Workshops
• Course A Walk on the Moon
• Website, Outreach to the deaf community
• Research Competition, Mentoring

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A few details the Workshop

• Forward website
• Workshop
• Graduate School Information
• Deciding and Applying, GREs
• Getting the most of education
• Internships, mentors, portfolios
• Assistance with the application process
• Job strategies and the current outlook

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Just a bit moreThe Course

• Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering
  Seminar A Walk on the Moon.
• Project-centered, Multi-institution
• Risk taking
• New pedagogy
• Experience solving interdisciplinary problems,
• Collaborating electronically in workgroups,
• Implementing and evaluating strategies in the
  research environment
• Building confidence to manage a successful career
  in SEM. 

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FinallyThe Research Grant, Deaf Access

• The Grants
• 9 mini-grants to
• Support graduate student research in the summer
  months
• Report back at the end of the summer
• Deaf Access
• Disseminate a common sign language vocabulary
  between interpreter and Deaf student. 
• Technical interpreting workshops