2004 CAPP Professional Development Seminar - Preliminary Agenda

   

Friday, April 30, 2004  

 

7:30—Continental Breakfast

 

8:00—Welcome and Introduction

  Overview of the workshop - Introductions; Overview of statistics of associate/full professors; goals of workshop; organization of workshop

Speakers:
  • Jan Cuny, University of Oregon (cuny@cs.uoregon.edu)
  • Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh (soffa@cs.pitt.edu)

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    8:15—Getting Promoted to Full Professor (Slides-PDF)

      This session will address the differences between promotion to associate professor and promotion to full professor. Expectations will be discussed that include different types of universities and colleges. Strategies will be presented that help enable promotion. This session will also stress planning your activities for promotion. Challenges that one may face and strategies for handling them will also be part of this session.

    Format: the speakers will present their views (45 minutes) and then an open discussion will follow (30 minutes).

    9:30—Break

     

    10:00—Taking a Leadership Role

      This session will focus on leadership roles, an important part of being promoted to full professor and your life as a full professor. The expectations of leadership as well as the different kinds of leadership roles will be part of the discussion, including leadership roles in your department, in your university, and within your research community. Strategies for achieving leadership will be part of the presentation.

    Format: The speakers will present their views on successful strategies for each topic (45 minutes), leaving 30 minutes for open discussion.

    12:15—Lunch

     

    1:30—Remaking your Career

      There are many types of positions that one can hold as a faculty member, including administration, working for a government agency, starting your own company, and being an endowed chair. In this session, the opportunities will be discussed as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the different career paths. Some of the opportunities come about because of planning (see next session) and some happen spontaneously. Deciding what to do when opportunities arise and how to ensure the position is what you want will also be discussed.

    Format: The speakers will present their views on successful strategies for each topic (45 minutes), leaving 30 minutes for open discussion

    2:15—Planning for Career Transitions (Slides-PDF)

      This session will address how a faculty member should plan for different transitions. The expectations of the different jobs, and at different universities, will be discussed as well as how to prepare for career transitions and potential career transitions. Included will be strategies for how to position yourself so you have a better chance for an opportunity and how to seek out the potential opportunities. This session will also discuss how to deal with opportunities that you had might not have anticipated and the real barriers to taking advantage of a career opportunity.

    Format: The speakers will present their views on successful strategies for each topic (45 minutes), leaving 30 minutes for open discussion

    3:30—Break

       

    4:00—Research Breakouts

      In this session, small groups of participants will meet with a distinguished professor based on research interests. Different research areas have different expectations and paths for being well respected in the community. The small groups will discuss their particular culture and how to find collaborators, get involved in program committees and boards of journals. Networking will be an important component of this session.

    Speakers:
  • all distinguished professors and participants

    Format: Small groups with meet a distinguished professor and discuss strategies for getting ahead in their research community.

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    7:00—Organized Dinner

       

     

     

     

     

    Saturday, May 1, 2004 

    7:30—Continental Breakfast

     

    8:00—Workshop Session: Attend either Workshop #1 or Workshop #2

       

    11:30—Lunch

     

    1:00—Workshop Session: Attend either Workshop #1 or Workshop #2

     

    4:30—Wrap-Up

       




    Workshop #1: Strong Women/Strategic Performance
    Facilitator: Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech, American Repertory Theatre/Institute for Advanced Theater Training, Harvard University
    Many accomplished professional women feel themselves to be less effective than they wish when leading or participating in discussions, meetings, or group negotiations. They struggle with feeling unheard, with reactive rather than strategic behaviors, with physical stress and tension, and with ineffective speaking voices. The keys to success in such arenas are both strategic and physical - how one presents oneself and one's ideas is key to their acceptance. This workshop, which combines theatre training and leadership development in an interactive format that encourages highly personal learning, is designed to enhance women's abilities and confidence in such situations. It will teach participants techniques used in theatre and leadership programs to improve performance and will coach participants in strategic management of discussions and negotiations.
    Nancy Houfek has served as a consultant to professional speakers throughout the United States since 1978. She has presented workshops for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Medical School, Radcliffe Seminars, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists, as well as for many clients in the private sector. A film of her work with Harvard faculty, "The Act of Teaching," has been produced by the Bok Center for national distribution to faculty development centers.

    With a B.A. from Stanford University, Nancy received her M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where she remained as an actor, director and coach for nearly a decade. She has directed and performed in over one hundred plays and musicals off-Broadway and at regional theatres throughout the nation. She has held faculty positions at the U. of Washington, S.M.U. and the U. of Minnesota where she headed the professional actor training program. Actors that she has coached or taught include Annette Bening, Carolyn McCormick, Benjamin Bratt, Debra Winger, Felicity Huffman, Arliss Howard, and Will Patton. As Head of Voice & Speech of Harvard's American Repertory Theatre, Ms. Houfek teaches the graduate level actors, coaches the professional actors of the company, and heads the M.F.A. program in voice training pedagogy.




    Workshop #2: Women's Leadership Development
    Facilitator: Sandra L. Shullman, Executive Development Group, Columbus, OH
    This workshop is designed to give participants some basic concepts and tools to further develop their leadership skills. Participants will learn about various concepts of leadership (including their own), explore what is known about gender and its role in leadership situations, reflect on their own leadership challenges, and do some self assessment and planning to identify/develop areas for skill enhancement. The program will involve a variety of instructional approaches, including presentation, small group discussion and experiential learning.
    Dr. Sandra Shullman is a nationally known organizational consultant and has written and presented extensively on the topics of performance appraisal, performance management, strategic succession planning, career development, management of self-esteem and motivation, team building, diversity management, and the management of individual, organizational and systems change strategies. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from Dickinson College and Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from The Ohio State University, where she previously served as part of the University administration.

    Dr. Shullman was formerly Coordinator of Managerial Effectiveness Programs at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Senior Consultant and Director of Research for a management consulting organization in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was also formerly Program Director of the Ph.D. training program in Counseling Psychology at Kent State University. She is Past President of the Ohio Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Most recently, she has chaired the Workgroup on Executive Coaching for the American Psychological Association.

    She currently teaches graduate level organizational psychology for Cleveland State University and lectures at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business and the John Glenn Institute for Public Policy on leadership issues. She founded and manages the Columbus, Ohio office of the Executive Development Group, LLC, an international consulting firm.