2006 CAPP Professional Development Workshop - Agenda

   

Friday, October 20, 2006  

 

1:00—Welcome and Introductions
Slides (PPT)

  Overview of the workshop, goals, organization; CSE associate/full professor statistics.

Speakers:
  • Mary Luo Soffa (soffa@virginia.edu), University of Virginia
  • Mary Jane Irwin (mji@cse.psu.edu), Penn State University

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    1:15—Session 1R & 1E: Getting Promoted to Full Professor

      This paralel sessions - one for CAPP-R attendees and one for CAPP-E attendees - will address the differences in expectations, processes, and guidelines between promotion to associate professor and promotion to full professor. Planning your activities toward promotion will be stressed. Challenges along the road to promotion that one may face - and strategies for handling them - will be discussed. Opportunities and options for funding will be outlined. The CAPP-R track will focus on expectations at primarily research-focused universities; CAPP-E will focus on expectations at primarily teaching-focused universities and colleges.

    CAPP-R Speakers:
  • Jessica Hodgins (jkh@cs.cmu.edu), CMU
  • Padma Raghavan (raghavan@cse.psu.edu), PSU

    CAPP-E Speakers:
  • Susan Williams (rebstock@georgiasouthem.edu), Georgia Southern
  • Jodi Tims (jltims@bw.edu), Baldwin Wallace
    Slides (PPT)

    Format: The speakers will present their views (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (45 minutes).

  • 2:45—Break

     

    3:15—Session 2R & 2E: Taking Charge of Your Career

      This session will focus on different career paths - the research/teaching track, the administration track, transitioning to industry or government (and back again) - and how to plan accordingly. The advantages and disadvantages of the different paths, and at different universities, will be discussed. Deciding what to do when career opportunities arise and how to ensure the position is to your benefit will be discussed. Some opportunities come about because of planning and some happen spontaneously; included will be strategies for positioning yourself for potential opportunities and how to deal with opportunities that you might not have anticipated. The real barriers to taking advantage of career opportunities will also be discussed.

    CAPP-R Speakers:
  • Mary Jean Harrold (harrold@cc.gatech.edu), GaTech
  • Anne Condon (condon@cs.ubc.ca), UBC
    Slides (PPT)

    CAPP-E Speakers:
  • Joan Francioni (jfrancioni@winona.edu), Winona State
  • Dee Parks (dap@cs.appstate.edu), Appalachian State
    Slides (PPT)

    Format: The speakers will present their views (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (45 minutes).

  • 4:45—One-on-One Curricula Vitae Reviews

     

    6:30—Reception

      Introduction of Distinguished Professors and CAPP attendees.

    7:00—Dinner

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Saturday, October 21, 2006  

     

    8:00—Continental Breakfast

     

    8:30—Panel: Professional Volunteerism - Opportunities and Pitfalls
    Slides (PPT)

      This session will present opportunities for volunteer activities that can help to advance your career - both within your own university and within the profession. Also discussed will be strategies for gaining recognition for your accomplishments and for helping others to be recognized.

    Panelists:
  • Jan Cuny (cuny@cs.uoregon.edu), NSF and University of Oregon
  • Gloria Childers Townsend(gct@depauw.edu), Depauw
  • Ellen Zegura (ewz@cc.gatech.edu), GaTech

    Format: The panelists will present short position statements for their professional volunteerism experiences (at NSF, with ACM, with CRA, with NCWIT, ...) presenting both the pro's and con's (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (45 minutes).

  • 10:00—Break

     

    10:30—Session 3R: Planning Sabbaticals and Remote Collaborations
    Slides (PPT)

      This session will address how to effectively plan and execute a sabbatical or leave. Also, remote collaborations and strategies for planning these as well as managing them will be discussed.

    Speakers:
  • Carla Ellis (carla@cs.duke.edu), Duke

    Format: The speaker will present her views (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (45 minutes).

  • 10:30—Session 3E: Getting What You Need
    Slides (PPT)

      In some cases, associate professors need to have access to resources that are difficult for them to get, including a Ph.D., training courses, collaborations, equipment, time for research, etc. This session will discuss possible strategies for obtaining the resources, including time.

    Speakers:
  • Ellen Walker (walkerel@hiram.edu), Hiram
  • Ingrid Russell (irussell@hartford.edu), Hartford

    Format: The speakers will present their views (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (45 minutes).

  • 12:00—Lunch

     

    1:00 - 3:00—Workshop: STRATEGIES FOR LEADING CHANGE (runs in parallel with Sessions 4 and 5)

      Speaker:
  • Lee Warren, Harvard University

  •   Making change happen can be done from any position in an organization. Many highly successful women can easily identify what changes need to happen, but find it difficult to lead others to confront the challenges facing their group. This workshop will increase the capabilities of powerful women to effect organizational change. Participants will learn to differentiate types of challenges, understand how roles determine strategies, and identify the pressures behind the resistance to change. Using a case from the group, participants will explore a method to clarify the larger purpose while identifying the trap of "quick fixes". Participants will leave with new strategies for sucessfully leading change in their institution or organization.
     

    1:00 - 2:00—Session 4: Does it Take a Superwoman?

      Do you have to be a superwoman to succeed? Is it possible to have a successful career, a family, and a life all at the same time? We will hear from a speaker who is managing to juggle all and who will provide insight into how to appear to be a superwoman without actually having to be one.

    Speaker:
  • Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia

    Format: The speaker will present her views (30 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (30 minutes).

  • 2:00 - 3:00—Session 5: Time Management
    Slides (PPT)

      Do you never seem to have enough time to get everything done? Is it a matter of time management or learning to say no? We will hear from a speaker who is obsessively organized in a way that helps her manage her time (but who still hasn't managed to learn how to say no).

    Speaker:
  • Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University

    Format: The speaker will present her views (30 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (30 minutes).

  • 3:00—Break

       

    3:30—STRATEGIES FOR LEADING CHANGE and Sessions 4 and 5 Repeated

       

    5:30—Wrap-Up